73 Quotes by Siobhan Fahey

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

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.

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

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

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

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.