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

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

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.

No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.

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.

The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.

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.

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.

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

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'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.

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.

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.

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.

Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.

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

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