Siouxsie Quotes

#1. People say to me, 'Do you dye your hair?' and I say, 'Well, does f**king Siouxsie Sioux? Does Bowie?'. Of course I'm going to have a decent haircut. It's one of the first things I learnt to do - get a few songs together and get your hairstyle right.

Johnny Marr

#2. I was very aware of performers who have a persona, whether it's Siouxsie Sioux or Patti Smith or Lydia Lunch, and I'm just this middle-class girl coming from a more conventional upbringing, this California person. But in a way I felt like it's important to represent the normal.

Kim Gordon

#3. I hate the industry even more now, no bands get nurtured anymore. Labels only spend money promoting acts they know will be Top Ten. I find it offensive spending $2 million on a video.

Siouxsie Sioux

#4. It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a par and not seen as just objects. Though girls were objectified still.

Siouxsie Sioux

#5. Evolution created a violent order where beings eat other beings. Till we change this order and create a harmony between all beings, there shall be no real peace on Earth.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. How come princesses always have some huge flaw that can cause their downfall?

Rachel Cohn

#7. On a sunny clear day, you can improve your body; on a rainy fogy day, you can improve your mind!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. I love the ocean. I've always liked the blue, so tranquil and peaceful and gliding. And the fear of it.

Siouxsie Sioux

#9. There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.

Siouxsie Sioux

#10. If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light.

Pope Benedict XVI

#11. 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

#12. I was never attracted to being a very proficient singer or player. I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way I was very drawn to tension within cinema.

Siouxsie Sioux

#13. I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.

Jasper Johns

#14. When the truth hurts we always hate the messenger

Neal Shusterman

#15. I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.

Siouxsie Sioux

#16. My dreams are of water. And my nightmares.

Siouxsie Sioux

#17. There is a fun, flippant side to me, of course. But I would much rather be known as the Ice Queen.

Siouxsie Sioux

#18. 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

#19. Pop music for me was definitely escapist, but never studious.

Siouxsie Sioux

#20. The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Jan Schakowsky

#21. In a flash, he was on his feet, running towards Michaels. But the hotshot cop had fired three perfect shots, strategically hitting both rear tires and taking out the back window. A sniper. The truck swerved in the street and hit the guardrail hard. Judge

A.E. Via

#22. 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

#23. I'm starting to learn that if things are messy, or pieces don't get put back right, they are going to hurt, either way.

R. YS Perez

#24. What people don't understand is when punk started it was so innocent and not aware of being looked at or being a phenomenon and that's what everyone gets wrong. You can't consciously create something that's important, it's a combination of chemistry, conditions, the environment, everything.

Siouxsie Sioux

#25. A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.

William Ralph Inge

#26. I like a bit of eye candy like anyone but to have it solely about the eye candy and have it fall into a category so rigidly as well is wrong.

Siouxsie Sioux