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" American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second. "
Doing
Band
American
" At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering. "
Suffering
Time
Loved
" Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could. "
You
Thinking
Done
" Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else. "
Together
Chance
Me
" For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It's electric and kind of wild, you know? It's 'make your hairs stand up on the back of your neck' kind of music. "
You
Know
Music
" I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner. "
Movies
Loved
Always
" I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear. "
I Am
Language
My Own
" I believe in God. "
Believe
God
I Believe In
" I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician. "
I Can
Talk
Reveal
" I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college. "
Singing
Painting
Live
" I couldn't think of anything worse than hating your own music and having to play it every night. It would be a nightmare. "
Play
Own
Music
" I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style. "
Colour
Style
Like
" I don't see why women have to get naked to sell an album. It's crazy. "
Sell
See
Why
" I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music. "
Play
Mind
Music
" I don't think the music that I do is nostalgic in any way; I don't think about going back to nice, old-fashioned music. I'm certainly influenced by old music, but I want to bring it slap-bang up to today. "
Nice
Music
Want
" I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up. "
Hope
World
Dress
" I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across. "
Hope
Music
My Life
" I even sang once at the opening of a supermarket. You name it, I've done it. "
Name
Done
Opening
" If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever. "
You
People
Music
" I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before. "
Theme
Great
Day
" I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it. "
Happy
Up
Got
" I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz. "
Big
Used
Time
" I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way. "
Me
Big
Better
" I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive. "
Job
I Can
Know
" I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write. "
Escape
Way
Fairy
" I lost a boyfriend over Elmore James. You know that moment when you send mixtapes at fifteen? He sent me pop hits, and I sent him Elmore James, and I never heard from him again. "
You
Know
Lost
" I love festivals in that people seem to let their hair down more. I love that people run from stage to stage. I love going as a performer because you get to see band that you wouldn't necessarily go see. "
People
Hair
Love
" I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines. "
You
Living
Love
" I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for my ears now, it has to have that same electricity, adrenaline and danger. "
Love
Rock
Now
" I love the shape of '50s fashion: the clothes are very flattering; they let you out in the right places. I love high heels, too, as I'm only five foot three, although I always tell people I'm five foot five. "
You
Fashion
Clothes
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