Toyah Willcox

Musician

1958-05-18

Quotes by Toyah Willcox

• Some people believe tarot cards are a form of black magic or senseless new age mysticism but for me they are a practical way of talking directly to the universe.

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• I'm 5ft 1in and despise being small. People think I'm cute and cuddly, and I'm not.

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• I'm really muscular because my mother had to teach me how to straighten my own spine. It wasn't good for my relationship with her because she was dictatorial about it, but in the end I was able to disguise what I had.

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• When punk started, it wasn't subtle.

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• Far too many of my peers were taken in by the jet-setting rock star lifestyle and didn't realise the money might not last forever - but I have always had an eye on the future and invest in a syndicate to share risk.

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• Everyone else at school was terrified of me, and they were always laughing at me.

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• I've studied nutrition since I was 23 and I began to find that a lot of my eating habits were to do with boredom and frustrations rather than hunger. When I was thirsty I would eat rather than drink.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• You should never undermine friendship and loyalty.

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• I think people need reassurance that there is an afterlife. That's perfectly understandable.

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• Getting older doesn't worry me, what does is getting unfit.

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• I have a very strict lifestyle. It's a vegetarian household and we grow our own produce.

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• I'm not vegetarian. I eat what I crave, but most of the time I don't crave meat.

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• This human body is very much a vehicle that's used to the constraints of time but once the body is old and used up our minds go into an eternal space.

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• Because of my career I have a huge wardrobe of fantastic costumes and they take up almost an entire house. Many of my stage outfits are worth a lot of money. To save cash I buy my more practical outfits from Primark.

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• I'd like young people to seek my advice, and trust that the decades I have lived through have added to my abilities to be a valuable contributor to the workplace and society.

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• 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.

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• Women of all ages need to be present in the media to instill girls and young women with self-confidence about their futures. And women of my age need healthy role models. Otherwise, how can we build the future dreams we still deserve to have?

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