Magazine Articles > The Face Interview - Part 2

<<< ...come on and I was really worried about it. He was so powerful, Oh Lord he was so powerful! He said to me (putting on Sam of Sqm & Dave voice) 'Girl you've got it just.like Aretha.' But I know I haven't.
Are you a disciplined person?
Yes, in certain respects I am and in others I'm completely out of order. I think I could be a bit more in control of my feelings and mood changes but, ironically, it's from these depths and moods that songs arise. I go thr9ugh these three month periods when I'm 90mpletely down, I never really let things slip, though at one point I was constantly wearing a dressing gown, not able to see the point in anything. I'm not like that now. But I'm afraid I sometimes.let my feelings get th~ better of me instead of being professional about things. I'll panic, get worked up, say I can't do it anymore and I'm no good. I tend to dQthese things with Dave because I know him so intimately.
When Dave first met you, you were an intense young waitress singing songs and playing the harmonium. That's a rather morbid instru- ment for a young girl.
Oh (with glee) it's a tremendous instrument! There it is (pointing to a friendly looking box in the corner). The knee-swells are going, it's a sad tale. Somebody stole it from me. They were moving house at the time and this girl sold it to the removal man without my permission. When it came back it was all messed up. I never forgave her for that!
Were you Influenced more by Nico or the Rev. Jess Yates?
I was more into Dusty Springfield. But at home I have a suitcase full of wonderfulinusicc - Mozart, Telemann, Bach, Debussy.
Were you the proverbially square music student?
You mean pigeon-toed and knock-kneed. Oh no, I always considered myself up-to-the- minute. But I neve! wore my glasses until now. Now I try to make myself look as plain as possible.
Ideally, how would you like to look?
Oh well. .. my nose should be a little smaller, my face shouldn't be as long. I'd .like 'to lose the dark shadows under ~y eyes and the wrinkles now developing at the age of 30. I would like to have thicker hair, curlier, and thicker eyebrows though I like my eyes - I'm very happy with my eyes, I don't want to change them and I like my mouth and I like my teeth but I don't like fillings -
Can't you rise above these external imperfections?
Oh and I don't like my smile or my profile. I ask because you've just been a Cosmo covergirl. Do you subscribe to the Helen Gurley Brown philosophy of life and orgasm? It bores the hell out of me. I don't want to read about sex all the time. It's not real life.
How do you get away from it all?
Go to bed is the best thing - to sleep.
If you hadn't met Dave Stewart where would you be now?
God knows - in a real mess married to some Greek Cypriot living off the Holloway Road, I was very close to it at one point. Mind you, fortunately he got rid of me which broke my heart but I'm grateful to him in hindsight. I was 21. and his name was Agis.
Haggis? That's a funny name for a Greek.
Agis - he broke my heart in seventeen places. I met him again as one does sometime after and didn't even recognise him. I thought 'Good grief, was that what I was so upset about?' "Love Is A Stranger" had nothing to do with him. >>>