Top 47 Quotes & Sayings by Siobhan Fahey
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British musician Siobhan Fahey.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will.
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've always been an outsider; a displaced person.
No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.
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.
I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooking.
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.
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.
I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.
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.
It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.
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.
I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.
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'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 just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?
I consider the Stooges to be pop music.
I absolutely hate Take That, East 17, the Spice Girls.
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.
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.
If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.
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'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.
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 never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.
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.
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 can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.
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.
Being a woman is really crap.
You put something you like on really loud, and you feel godlike.
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'm quite repulsed by the diva type.
Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.
The ultimate revenge is being on Top Of The Pops.
I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.
I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.
Fashion goes round in circles.
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
I carry on in my own narrow little tunnel and we have very different experiences of life even though we live together.
I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music... It's my fascination, my on-going passion.
You'd better hope and pray
That you make it safe
Back to your own world
You'd better hope and pray
That you'll wake one day in your own world
'Cause when you sleep at night
They don't hear your cries in your own world
Only time will tell if you can break the spell
Back in your own world.
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 tended to avoid meeting my heroes. They aren't necessarily the nicest people anyway. The exception was George Harrison, one of the loveliest men I've ever met. He lent me his home studio to make Hormonally Yours.
If this world is wearing thin
And you're thinking of escape
I'll go anywhere with you
Just wrap me up in chains
But if you try to go alone
Don't think I'll understand
Stay with me, stay with me.
Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex.
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