Siouxsie Interview, 'Smash Hits' Nov 22 1984.

Note: This a verbatim transcription, the condescending in brackets are original!!
Interviewer: Tom Hibbert.

"I had fried moose last night." Siouxsie tells me for no apparent reason when first we me."
"Fried mousse as in pudding?" I enquire incredulously.
 "No. Fried moose as in M-O-O-S-E, the animal with horns."
I am shocked. For I thought that Siouxsie with her fondness for pussycats and animals in the zoo (The Creatures have adopted a peccary called Gregory, and an armadillo called Amy), would be a veggie.
 "What!" she splutters. "I'm not a veggie. I couldn't get up in the morning if I were a veggie. I need my beefburgers!"
Beefburgers?
  "Yes. Birds Eye are the best. Birds Eye make the best fish fingers too. Birds Eye beefburgers, baked beans on toast, instant mash - that's the stuff!"

Siouxsie, it turns out, is a mass of small, endearing contradictions. The beefburger guzzling - furry animal lover doesn't like contemporary pop music much at all - yet she never misses Top Of The Pops. She has a passion for horror movies and is currently trying to track down a copy of the banned 'video nasty' Driller Killer - yet she would often rather be watching Terry Wogan. She is fascinated by grisly murder mysteries - yet it's obvious, she wouldn't hurt a fly. She thinks that Howard Jones is, frankly, rather "wet" - yet describes Robert Smith, whose hair-dos rival Howard's in the silly stakes as "Cuddly".
  On stage she rarely cracks a smile, preferring to project herself as the cold, sinister siren - yet throughout the following Q&A investigation session, she cackles and giggles with unnerving regularity.
Read on ...
What do your friends from before you were famous think of you now?
 I don't have any friends from before. I haven't got any school chums. I didn't have any deep friendships at school because it was all silly girls talking about their boyfriends. I thought they were all a bit ridiculous so I tended to hang out quite a lot with my older brother an sister.
What do they think of you now?
They're jolly proud. They come to the concerts. My sister's a dancer and my brother owns an off license in Lewisham. I hunt out strange liquors for him in diverse places and for my birthday he bought me a whole crate of Saki (foul-tasting alcoholic beverage from Japan).
Do you often get recognised when you're shopping in Tesco's?
 yes. It doesn't make my day when I get recognised, particularly when I'm feeling delicate with a hangover. It's ridiculous when people start noticing what you're buying and following you when you're making a bee-line for the mincemeat - "Ooh, look! That's her doing that! I suppose I should go shopping in disguise to make my trip less traumatic but I don't really have anything normal I can wear - unless I go out in my dressing gown.
Do you ever get verbal abuse in the street?
 No. The looks I get are sometimes abusive but no-one's ever come up and said "Ooh, I think you're disgusting." Before I was well known, they did, but these days people tend to be wary of me. Except for some of the fans.
Fans bother you?
 Well, I do get a bit angry when people find out where I live and start banging on the door and inviting themselves in for a chat. It's stupid and inconsiderate. The Banshees are not the Bay City Rollers, for goodness sake! We don't want to rush out after a gig into a Rolls Royce and zoom of but a lot of the time we're forced to. I'm not Simon le Bon. Mind you, I can't imagine who'd want to know where Simon le Bon lives. Some people must be very bored that's all I can say. Marc Almond's been besieged quite a lot. I think he's a charming young man.
As charming as "cuddly" Robert Smith?
 Oh, Robert's a cutie. I punch him around and hug him. Mind you, you won't catch me doing a song about pussycats even thought I passionately adore them. It's a bit weedy to go on about things you passionately love like that. I love chocolate cake but I don't sing about it.
Tell me about the men in your life?
 You'll have to start working for the Daily Star if you want to ask those sort of questions. You can't trick me. Do you think I'm a fool?
Alright, then. Tell me about Steven Severin.
 Steven's very cuddly. Actually, that's an ironic lie! (peals of ironic laughter).
Alright, then. Tell me about the men you admire?
 I'd love to meet J. G. Ballard (trendy novelist). Who else is there? Sylvester - he's fabulous. And I'd like to bump into Jack Nicholson in the supermarket. He's got a wicked smile. Oooh, I'm squirming! I hate being made to squirm. Can we drop the subject.
Very well. Do you miss the so-called 'heady days' of punk?
 Not really. I get really fed up when people try and analyse it as a 'cause', which it wasn't. But it is a shame that there doesn't seem to be much of that kind of vibe for today's kids. I mean Howard Jones or somesuch - I feel sorry for the kids that they haven't got something a bit more exciting than that. It must have been really exciting to be young when the Rolling Stones were around infuriating Mums and Dads, but Howard Jones really!
Are there any contemporary pop acts you like?
 I like the Weather Girls. They're pretty contemporary. But there's so many new groups and some of them might be brilliant but I wouldn't know because I don't listen to the radio. I listen to LBC (London news station)a and their idea of the pop scene is Supertramp and that group that did "Sultans Of Swing". Apart from Top Of The Pops, I spend a lot of time escaping from pop music.
What would you be if you weren't a singer?
 A make up artist or a pathologist.
 Why are you interested in pathology (the science of bodily diseases)? Well, I think crazy crimes and bits of fingers turning up railway lines and finding out who dropped them - that's fascinating. I'm fascinated with untypical human behaviour - or maybe it's typical human behaviour. Who can say? But murders aren't very clever any more. They're not very daring. It's just get a gun -bang- and everyone sees you. No-one seems to use acid very much to destroy the evidence. I read something recently where they've come up with a dissolvable gun. You can kill someone and flush the gun down the toilet and it disappears. That's cheating, really.
What are your favourite horror films?
 Things like The Alien, Psycho, The Tenant, The thing and really stupid ones like Theatre Of Blood with Vincent Price, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was hilarious and I cheered to The Evil Dead because there's all these dumb college kids that start walking around in the dark on their own knowing there's a demented killer about. They deserve to get it basically for being so dumb and such stupidly American college kids going "yak yak yak". They're so obnoxious.
What do you think of the musical category "New Women In Rock"?
 Revolting! I suppose they think it's such a novelty that the little ladies are actually opening their mouths. It's insulting, tiresome and irritating. How DARE they dump me into their stupid little categories?
Where's your head at?
 Ooh. It's bit tunnel-vision at the moment and hair's gone all weedy and fluffy and stupid. I've got terribly weedy hair today. I must say, I do like this idle chit-chat. It's much better that a real interview...