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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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I consider the Stooges to be pop music.
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I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music... It's my fascination, my on-going passion.
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I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?
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If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.
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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.
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Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.
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It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.
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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.
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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.
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I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.
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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.
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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.
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I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.
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You put something you like on really loud, and you feel godlike.