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We did 10 years of working and travelling constantly, and we were just knackered. I thought: 'I've got to take a break.' I felt like I was going mad. I decided to move to Cornwall.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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It's not like we don't have any talent. We can't sing like Whitney Houston, but we can sing well.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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It's really odd, but whatever we do and whatever style we might tackle, we always sound like us.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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We lived at the Sex Pistols' house because we were asked to vacate our room at the YWCA for 'keeping late hours.'
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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I find it really irritating when a band changes the melody of a song you know.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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Thank god magazines like 'Heat' weren't around in our day. The thought of someone catching you unawares on a beach and publishing photos of your cellulite… it's so hurtful, causes so many problems.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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I'd hate to be too grown-up. That would be dull.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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I don't really get that, when groups tour together or even do anything together when they hate each other.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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I might have been told to put a comb through my hair once or twice - by my mother!
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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When you've known someone for so long you never lose that friendship.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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After a few years, we realized that you did have to put some work into it. That's why the bimbo comments make me angry. After seven years, people have to realize we have a certain amount of talent.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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If we'd had a Svengali manager and done what we would have been told, maybe we would have had a bigger, more hugely successful career.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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I'm not worried about wrinkles on my cheeks, or going grey. I'm not trying to be 20.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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It never worked having a management style where someone would try to tell us what to do. It's never been the sort of group that we are.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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When we go out, we do enjoy ourselves. We don't worry about whether or not people will recognize us.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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We've always written from personal experiences.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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We want people to enjoy our music.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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We had no money, and we had to go through 'punk' school. We ended up living in the rehearsal room that used to be the Sex Pistols rehearsal room at Malcolm McLaren's office. So we had this sort of interesting beginning.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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That's what friendships are, isn't it? You don't all have to be the same, as long as you've all got the same sense of humor and same attitudes on life.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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I've never been on a diet that lasted more than a day.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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We were very creative. There was nothing contrived about us. No one telling us what to do, what to wear, what to sing. We wrote our own material, chose our producers.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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We have never wrapped ourselves up in our own world thinking we are the only people who know what is doing. We listen to other things and see what we would like and what would suit us.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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It's a real shame if people feel they have to do anything that makes them uncomfortable to be successful.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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We never realized how much of an influence we had.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
