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"This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason."
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"I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression."
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"You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it."
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"There isn't any doubt I'm stuck in stress and depression."
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"We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression."
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"The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower."
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"Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low."
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"I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to."
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"When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments."
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"I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing."
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"Well, I did know - but I just wanted the day to pass and the next day to come and then I wanted that one to pass. It was a horrible cycle. I felt so close to having to pack the game in."
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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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"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."
Music
"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."
Music
"There's a lot of rage... you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent."
Music
"Fashion goes round in circles."
Fashion
"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."
Love
"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."
People
"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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"It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears."
Sound
"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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