Toyah Willcox

My mother never slept.

— Toyah Willcox

I was very naughty, even as a baby.

— Toyah Willcox

I have always had disrupted, broken sleep.

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I hated every minute of my schooldays.

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I'd had a strict religious education.

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I am disproportionately ambitious.

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When punk started, it wasn't subtle.

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I can't live in a world of dullards. So I think on that level, I'm definitely punk.

— Toyah Willcox

I turn a lot of jobs down because they are patronising.

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In my industry who you know is very important.

— Toyah Willcox

My father, Beric, ran a joinery business and owned two factories.

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Live to live. Don't live to die. And never stop learning.

— Toyah Willcox

I don't think my insomnia is fixable: I think it's in my DNA.

— Toyah Willcox

I've never lived with a 'be careful' philosophy.

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You either decide to age gracefully or not to age. I'm definitely the latter.

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I have absolutely no sense of my success whatsoever, in fact, I only have a sense of not doing what I intended…

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We are all part of a vibrant, energetic life force and my overwhelming belief is that the mind survives outside of the…

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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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Melissa Caplan made my costumes from the 70s to the mid-80s. I was very influenced by futurism and reading a lot of…

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I have always fought against being gender specific. I just don't like being identified as female: I'm a person.

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I was every mother's nightmare - I was a hair model from 14, and I started coming home with red, blue, green hair.

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

— Toyah Willcox

When I left home at 17, I became successful astronomically fast. But I think my parents were so frightened of me failing…

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My parents were incredibly strict. My father went through a stage where he'd line us up every Friday and cane our hands…

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My own teenage style was modelled on Barbara Hulanicki's Biba look, which was based around smart 1930s chic. Roxy Music crystallised that…

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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…

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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…

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I have a confession. I don't enjoy animation. I have no idea why because I absolutely adore doing voiceovers. I think part…

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The late 80s was quite a difficult time for me as an artist because I'd almost become a parody of myself. All…

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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…

— Toyah Willcox

Far too many of my peers were taken in by the jet-setting rock star lifestyle and didn't realise the money might not…

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The world doesn't reward talent, it mostly rewards those who are connected.

— Toyah Willcox

I am very wealthy and I could nurture a child very well.

— Toyah Willcox

Acupuncture has made all the difference to my sleep.

— Toyah Willcox

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

— Toyah Willcox

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

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I love being in the United States because I feel so energised there.

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One man is quite enough for me, I'd find three exhausting!

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

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I want to make money but not if it involves exploitation.

— Toyah Willcox