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Willcox often emphasised the fact that music and acting for her complemented one another: " I got to do both.

I like both for totally different reasons but I find if I escape for a few months from music to do some acting, then when I'm acting I'll probably write a lot of lyrics.

I like being busy the whole time.

I like having to think the whole time.

When I'm at my tiredest I get my best ideas.

So if I had to do one career I would find it incredibly frustrating coz it wouldn't satisfy my imagination enough ", she said in an ATV 1980 documentary.

" There was a time when I was doing two movies and an album.

Quadrophenia and Quatermass and the Sheep Farming in Barnet LP.

I didn't sleep for two weeks and I was very happy ", Willcox told Paul Morley in 1980.

On distinction between the two careers, she remarked: " When I'm acting I'm someone else's puppet.

I'm the director's or writer's puppet.

You feel that you are eating other people's minds to create a totally separate person.

You're creating something that doesn't exist, and it's great.

You feel like a creator ", adding: " I've got two personalities that both need feeding at the same time.

I couldn't tell you what they are.

I've got the snob in me and I've got the commoner in me.

The snob does the acting and the commoner the music ".