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"You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet."
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"When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire."

"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."

"There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence."

"Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked."

"I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously."
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"Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice."

"I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine."

"I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there."

"I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job."

"Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts."
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