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My mother never slept.
I am disproportionately ambitious.
I was very naughty, even as a baby.
When punk started, it wasn't subtle.
I'd had a strict religious education.
I have always had disrupted, broken sleep.
I try to eat small meals throughout the day.
I've never lived with a 'be careful' philosophy.
You should never undermine friendship and loyalty.
Acupuncture has made all the difference to my sleep.
I am very wealthy and I could nurture a child very well.
I want to make money but not if it involves exploitation.
Live to live. Don't live to die. And never stop learning.
The NHS is something we should put above everything else.
One man is quite enough for me, I'd find three exhausting!
Getting older doesn't worry me, what does is getting unfit.
I don't think my insomnia is fixable: I think it's in my DNA.
New Orleans is thrilling. The history is as rich as the food.
My father, Beric, ran a joinery business and owned two factories.
Punk is the voice that shouts the loudest from the silence of inertia.
The world doesn't reward talent, it mostly rewards those who are connected.
You either decide to age gracefully or not to age. I'm definitely the latter.
I am creative with both my limitations and my sense that everything is possible.
I'm not vegetarian. I eat what I crave, but most of the time I don't crave meat.
Everyone else at school was terrified of me, and they were always laughing at me.
I'm 5ft 1in and despise being small. People think I'm cute and cuddly, and I'm not.
I just find social media such a robotic experience, whereas punk was right in your face.
I have a very strict lifestyle. It's a vegetarian household and we grow our own produce.
I think people need reassurance that there is an afterlife. That's perfectly understandable.
If you don't protect the NHS, you're going to have health ghettoes where people can't get treated.
Punk helped musical fringes get attention. Stuff like Nirvana could never have happened without it.
See, I hold myself through my own muscle strength. That is why I'm built like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
I think very fast and visually and I have to write down an idea right away or it will be lost forever.
I have a habit of needing cake or chocolate when I get an energy dip around 4 P.M. I wish I could stop.
I was completely unconventional in everything, which my mother found very difficult. I was a huge tomboy.
I define myself by my work, so I'd be a sad creature without working. I just wouldn't get up in the morning.
I have always fought against being gender specific. I just don't like being identified as female: I'm a person.
There's an irony about making a film about punk because punk isn't supposed to have feature films made about it.
I was every mother's nightmare - I was a hair model from 14, and I started coming home with red, blue, green hair.
I remember my mother doing housework until four in the morning and then a couple of hours later taking me to school.
If my 20s were a time when the way I looked was my calling card, then it feels as though my 60s will be a reinvention.
As a young child, my family holidays were always in Rock, Cornwall, with my parents, older brother Kim and sister Nicola.
I had no interest in people telling me to be feminine, to be ladylike, to wear dresses - it just made me rebel completely.
I always fly British Airways. I find them to be the most dependable and I need to be on time when I'm travelling for gigs.
I moved to London to work at the National Theatre and spent my first wage packet on Patti Smith, Bowie and Velvets records.
I think Marilyn Manson has a better take on America than Michael Moore and I don't think he's appreciated for his intellect.
My favourite city of all has to be Seattle as it seems to encapsulate everything that is great about both Britain and America.
At one stage I was using crutches on stage and couldn't walk more than 20 yards but a hip replacement in 2010 sorted that out.
If science can help us have the same quality of life we enjoyed when we were much younger, we should grasp it with both hands.
My mother, Barbara, was a dancer from the age of 14 to 19. She toured with the comedian Max Wall in a dance group of six girls.