“That’s the way it is living in the suburbs, there’s lots of time to listen and play. No one I knew had ever listened to Marquee Moon before, so for me that was brand new. I could rip off a Tom Verlaine lick and all my friends would be really impressed ‘cause they thought it was mine. For a while, I had all these kids in high school convinced I had written a song called ‘Femme Fatale’. I’m sure it’s the same way with a lot of those British bands. It probably happened that way for the Bangles.”
— Neil Hagerty, interview in Conflict, fall 1989
