Keren Woodward Quotes
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I've got greasy hair, what can I say?
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I'd hate to be too grown-up. That would be dull.
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We wouldn't ever sit down and pretend that our friendship didn't fall apart back in the late ‘80s. It wasn't like there was a massive bust-up. We just drifted apart.
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We want people to enjoy our music.
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I guess that people can't imagine three girls just getting up off the streets and making a career for themselves without someone to help them - which is what we did.
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We spent a couple of years trying to be what we thought people wanted us to be, what the press thought we should be, doing what the company wanted. Finally we just said 'Sod it. This is what we do best. We're best at making pop records that people enjoy and having fun and entertaining them.'
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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.
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I don't really get that, when groups tour together or even do anything together when they hate each other.
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I might have been told to put a comb through my hair once or twice - by my mother!
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People thought we were intimidating, especially once we'd had a few drinks, but when I look back we were virtually on top of each other, holding hands. We sounded so stupid.
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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.
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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.
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I think it was about 1990 when we first wore heels to perform.
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When you've known someone for so long you never lose that friendship.
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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.
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When we go out, we do enjoy ourselves. We don't worry about whether or not people will recognize us.
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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.
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We didn't know it was going to be a career - it was just a lot of fun. We were known as the bimbo band and never expected to last.
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It's a real shame if people feel they have to do anything that makes them uncomfortable to be successful.
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I've never been on a diet that lasted more than a day.
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We've always written from personal experiences.
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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.
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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.
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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.