Who is Wendy James

Born: 21/01/66
Starsign: Aquarius
Nationality: English
Occupation: Singer, Songwriter
Lives: New York
Marital Status: Single
Children: None

'America as a whole is designed as a service industry. If I want to Fedex something at four in the morning I can. If I want to find a guitar string at five in the morning I can. It's just 24 hours a day there to give you what you need in order to work really hard. It's a worker's paradise.'

'If you don't watch out you get sucked into being 'mortgaged for life'. My radar, my antennae just aren't up for that kind of thing.'

'I've dabbled with the notion. I put my foot into drama school... but very quickly it became obvious to me that that was not the life for me. And really that consolidated the fact that it's music or nothing. There is no other option. Time spent on anything else could be time spent on music. It's my life. It's my passion. It's my sustenance. It's everything.'

'I like music because it makes sense of my whole reason to be alive.'

'Transvision Vamp, despite many people thinking it was just Wendy James, was a real gang. We were all in it together. It was a whole teenage ebullience thing. You believe in it because you believe in all your teenage reasons to be able to believe in anything. I now know how much hard toil and sweat I've put into it. I kept at it until I was satisfied. The short answer is there's a good reason to talk to journalists now. It's not for a peripheral reason, like 'I feel like doing an interview because I've not been talked about for a while.'

'I wake up in the morning glad I'm alive. Fatigue made me leave London. I'd walked down Portabello Road for 15 years and I was fed up with doing the same thing. I wanted to wake up and have a different vista. Some people move to Camden, I decided to move to New York. I always had that feeling when I came here: 'Wouldn't it be great to live in New York.' Then I thought to myself: 'If you think it would be so great, just do it.'

'All the great bands have both attitude and ability. But I still believe that there aren't any rules about what's right and what's wrong, you can play a whole song on one chord as long as you make it interesting.'

'As for regrets, I don't regret anything. I have learned from certain experiences, but there is no point in regretting them. I am very excited about the future.'

'I am not out to seek approval.'

Racine

*Racine No1

*Racine No2

Solo

*Now Ain't The Time For Your Tears

Transvision Vamp

*Pop Art

*Velveteen

*The Little Magnets vs The Bubble of The Babble

*Kiss Their Sons: The Best of Transvision Vamp