I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine, if you want – but also some sort of sadness, and plain mischief, of course. Siouxsie Sioux Read Quote
We don’t like trends. We formed initially because we felt we had something of our own to say. What was happening was lacking in certain aspects – it needed a different point of view, a variant on things, but with the same attack, impact. Siouxsie Sioux Read Quote
Always, with any sort of politics, which is why we haven’t got any, you get extremists, and once you get extremists, you get people doing great things and terrible things… for every following of some sort, you get followers who distort things. Siouxsie Sioux Read Quote
I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way, I was very drawn to tension within cinema. Hitchcock was my other early obsession – ‘Psycho’ and its score. So there was the sense of trying to create an atmosphere: how a sound resonates and makes an effect. Siouxsie Sioux Read Quote
The whole ‘anniversary of punk’ thing really compounded what I thought was wrong. I was so disillusioned. I remember thinking, ‘I don’t want anything to do with this.’ Siouxsie Sioux Read Quote
What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elements of what you are because it can only deal with black and white; the cartoon. Siouxsie Sioux Read Quote
People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive. Siouxsie Sioux Read Quote
It’s funny: now we’re starting to do interviews, we’ve just begun to understand what we’re doing, whereas before, without doing interviews, we never really thought about motives. Siouxsie Sioux Read Quote
