It's that time of year again. I just love it. All the sparkle and twinkling lights take me right back to being a kid. It's like fairyland. London is such a cool place to be in December.

The Smiths TV Interview Part 2

Q. Would you like to work more with Morrissey?

I dunno. He is a very unreliable person. He used to drive everybody absolutely crazy. He has a way of leading somebody to a point and then dropping them like a dead doughnut and they kind of feel bereft after that...,and there's a whole trail of people...and a lot of them get to my door. They ask, "WHY did he do that to me? Why?" and I just say, "Why on earth are you taking this so personally? - that's just how he is." Morrissey just finds it difficult to sustain relationships and part of working with someone in that way is that you do get incredibly intimate and I think that other people found it misleading but for me it was quite clear because I am a woman. It wasn't misleading. I think he left a whole lot of people confused about their sexuality...(giggles). So it was a nice kind of umm, bijou experience, perfectly formed. It has its own little life and ...yeh.

Q. If he asked you to work with him now?

I can't honestly think what we would do together (laughs). No, no...it would have to be something...I don't believe in re-tracing steps. I would have to think of something original and new to do and I don't know...He might surprise me one day. But he would have to REALLY surprise me! It wouldn't come from me. I wouldn't generate it. But I have learnt never to say never.

Q. Why do you think The Smiths have such an obsessive fan base?

One of the reasons is that they, well Morrissey in particular, had quite a sophisticated understanding, and I think this is what in fact brought us together in the first place, apart from both having this appreciation of symbolism, which I have always been into, is this thing about the existence of the artist and the fan being one, being interdependent, and that the fans and The Smiths developed at the same time, and it's kind of stuck in people's memory, of this important time for them, of sexual awakening and development, and then the fantasy development happened at the same time. Cos that's what The Smiths were keying into - I think...And at a time when other bands were becoming very aloof and apart from their fans. The Smiths were working this in their music and in their concerts, and in Morrissey's interviews, and really playing with it, toying with it. I think it was quite unique for its time.

• This month I will be mostly watching Lord of The Rings, Chicago, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - and the chimney at midnight. I will mostly be eating Christmas pudding with Cointreau and cream and drinking a nicely matured Chateauneuf Du Pape. Whlist cooking I will be mostly wearing a pair of silver angel wings and a sparkly pink halo.
  
  
• Buddha World for those of you who felt encouraged by the guidance we put up, there's another feel good piece up this month.
  
  
• News watch out for an important announcement in the New Year

• Right that's it for 2002- I'm off to the Carribean!

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