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" 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. "

Imelda May

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" Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland. "

" I couldn't think of anything worse than hating your own music and having to play it every night. It would be a nightmare. "

" I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way. "

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" People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood. "

" When I'm writing, I mean what I'm saying - there's a lot of me in each song. "

" I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz. "

" I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it. "

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" I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon. "

" 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. "

" When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said they wanted me to be the next Sonia. I was 16 at the time. I said, 'No thank you.' "

" I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.' "

" I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?' "

" 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. "

" 'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies - they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose. "

Imelda May

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" When I tell people that I lost my baby weight through breastfeeding, they think I'm exaggerating. But it was brilliant for that. It is great for bonding with your baby. It is hard when no one else can feed her, but it was worth it for me. I loved it. "

" I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means. "

" I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner. "

" I wash my face and put moisturiser on; I've never had a facial, and I don't get my hair or my nails done. I just do it all myself. "

" I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style. "

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" I never co-write. I've tried it before, and I just can't do it. "

" I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity. "

" 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. "

" The Spanish and the American audiences are lunatics. They are very passionate and, like the Irish, they don't have as many inhibitions. If you are playing somewhere like Austria or Sweden, it takes them a little while to come out of themselves. "

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" Up-tempo or slow tempo, I don't feel that one is better than the other. "

" 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. "

" When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen. "

" I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician. "