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" Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation. "

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" I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13. "

" We were signed to a label that wanted us to remain little girls who appealed to other little girls, who were cute and non-threatening. "

" There's a lot of rage... you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent. "

" I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will. "

" Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again. "

" I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing. "

" If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop. "

" You put something you like on really loud, and you feel godlike. "

" I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion. "

" It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word. "

" The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops. "

" They said I was a married mother of two but the record sounded like an indie album and they didn't know how to market it! This country is incredibly sexist, as is the music and media industry. "

" I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist. "

" I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate. "

" I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that? "

" Fashion goes round in circles. "

" I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly. "

" Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can. "

" I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me. "

" I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas. "

" I absolutely hate Take That, East 17, the Spice Girls. "

" I've always been an outsider; a displaced person. "

" I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet. "

" Being a woman is really crap. "

" Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do. "

" I consider the Stooges to be pop music. "

" I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love. "

" I'm quite repulsed by the diva type. "

" I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own. "