Quotes by Siobhan Fahey

About Siobhan Fahey:

Máire Siobhán Deirdre Fahey is an Irish-British musician. She was a founding member of the 1980s British girl group Bananarama, and later formed the Brit Award and Ivor Novello award winning musical act Shakespears Sister. Her vocal range is a light contralto.
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I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own.

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I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.

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

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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.

Siobhan Fahey

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

Siobhan Fahey

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.

Siobhan Fahey

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

Siobhan Fahey

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.

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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.

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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 just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?

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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 have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.

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I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

Siobhan Fahey

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.

Siobhan Fahey

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.

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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.

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I consider the Stooges to be pop music.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameSiobhan Fahey
  • Descriptionsinger and songwriter
  • BornSeptember 10, 1958
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionSinger