Keren Woodward Quotes
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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.'
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I find it really irritating when a band changes the melody of a song you know.
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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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It's really odd, but whatever we do and whatever style we might tackle, we always sound like us.
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I think it was about 1990 when we first wore heels to perform.
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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.
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I'd hate to be too grown-up. That would be dull.
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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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I'm not worried about wrinkles on my cheeks, or going grey. I'm not trying to be 20.
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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.
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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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We want people to enjoy our music.
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We've always written from personal experiences.
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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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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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When you've known someone for so long you never lose that friendship.
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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 never realized how much of an influence we had.
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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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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.