Explore Quotes by Siobhan Fahey

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

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

Being a woman is really crap.

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

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.

It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.

[Bananarama] were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press

I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.

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

The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.

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.

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

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