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There are four things Susan has a natural talent for: singing, dancing, acting and ....talking!  She is by far the most chatty member of the group and she can (unintentionally) totally dominate an interview of the trio. She has become a sort of defacto group spokesperson over the years and is usually the one who does the media relations for the band.
 Normally really bubbly and cheerful , she is certainly not afraid to be blunt.  It is also not unknown for interviewers to ask a too personal question or simply rub her up the wrong way. Then she, on occasion, can be quite cutting in her replies.


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"I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar... that much is true"

   - Her opening  line from THAT song! Susan's indelible mark on history and pop culture. A line that most people in the English speaking world know - no exaggeration! (As demonstrated by the photo below)
Of course she never actually was !!
 1981 - "Don't You Want Me" - The Human League, (Virgin Records)
"What 'better' job is there for a 17 year old girl than being in a pop group?"

- after being asked by an interviewer  whether she wished that she taken a 'better' job in 1980
 2004 - BBC Yorkshire radio
"If you're in a pop group, you are part of peoples fantasies; they think you have loads of money and live in a penthouse. That's what they want to see! They don't want to hear that you work in a tiny little studio and wear jeans half the time"

- speaking to Smash Hits magazine November 1981
"When I came home and said to my mum, 'This man's asked me and Joanne to go on tour with his band',
 she told me to go to my bedroom. I was grounded"

- Sunday Herald 26/12/99

"We were NEVER waitresses!!"

- indignantly correcting an ill informed radio interviewer's comment about her and Joanne's employment before the band in 1980.
To which Philip Oakey cheekily teased her with ...."YET!"
 2007 - BBC Radio Nottingham

"I think it's still happening. I think the fact we're still doing it now. After all these years
- I'm 41 now, and really, I shouldn't be in a pop group any more,
 but I am! And it's still my job!
 I wake up in the morning and I haven't got to go to a nine-to-five"

- when asked to pick the highlight of her career
 2004 - BBC radio

"What you see is what you get!  If you see us on a night out in Sheffield
you'd see us looking exactly the same as you'd see us on the video"

Interview conducted by Mark Blackham, London, 1995.  (Unpublished)

"We didn't join the group because we thought it would bring us fame and fortune, the reason we went on that first tour was because we'd get six weeks off school!"

Interview for 'Remember the Eighties' - 2002

"We never could dance, we wave our arms in the air and shake our bottoms and hope for the best basically; and we've done that for 24 years now!"

After being complemented on her dancing
 2004 - BBC radio

 

“Joanne and I really came into the band for the glamour aspect and the back-up vocals. Lead vocals were never ever thought of. They were a distant possibility, something that might happen in a couple of years on the fourth or fifth album. But the song’s story required a girl’s voice. I was really shocked!"


Describing her lead on 'Don't You Want Me' - Smash Hits December 1982
 

"I'm not a bad driver, I'm just ...err... different "
Article in Smash Hits August 1986
 

"The Human League is my whole life.
I don't really have a life outside it.
Everything I believe in is tied up in this group really.
Everything else is secondary."
Interview conducted by Mark Blackham, London, 1995.  (Unpublished)
 

"I can't believe how up their own arses people can get just because they sing a bit and jig about on stage... we live in Sheffield so we don't get that!"

On some other celebrities  -
Interview for 'Remember The 80s Website' - November 2002

"I never get fed up of talking about or singing that song"

On 'Don't You Want Me' -
 Interview South Wales Echo 4th December 2004

"Who knows where I'd have ended up!... I often think about it, I really do..."

When asked what her life would be like if  'The Crazy Daisy event'  hadn't  happened in 1980.
Interview for 'Remember The 80s Website' - November 2002

 

"Geri Halliwell recently said she went to a great party where she ate sushi and drank camomile tea. Sorry,

but to me a party involves drinking

copious amounts of wine and smoking lots of cigarettes."

 

Interview Daily Mail 1st May 2002

"We’re like cats! We’ve got nine lives, every time we fall down we land on our feet. You know, one day we’re going to run out of lives. Don’t know when that’s going to be?....But there’s no point in living if you haven’t got a dream and I’ve still got dreams for this group!"

TV Interview for 'Top 10 Electropop Pioneers' - UK Ch 4  - 1998

"It was a film! A little three and a half minute film. People hadn't seen that before and they really liked it"
 On her role in the Video for 'Don't You Want Me'
Radio interview 'Classic Albums' - BBC Radio 2 - 2000