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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.

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

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.