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

“I love digging out old records … Fashion goes round in circles.”

“I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music … It has probably been the biggest relationship in my life. It's my fascination, my on-going passion. … 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 carry on in my own narrow little tunnel and we have very different experiences of life even though we live together.”

“Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex.”

“I've always tried not to take it too seriously — if you do, you dry up creatively, you turn into a product and it stymies you.”

“Shakespears Sister Info File”