Bananarama Quotes
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Being a woman is really crap.
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I've tended to avoid meeting my heroes. They aren't necessarily the nicest people anyway. The exception was George Harrison, one of the loveliest men I've ever met. He lent me his home studio to make Hormonally Yours.
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It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears.
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But you're not really emotionally mature in your 20s. Well, we weren't. You don't say anything, you just bottle it up and then it builds up.
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Fashion goes round in circles.
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We were completely DIY and very opinionated. We weren't the type that sat back or do what we're told… We never listened to many people.
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Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again.
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The ‘80s don't seem to have gone away. Most weekends in the summer we're off doing a festival in front of 10,000 or 15,000 people with a load of other ‘80s acts. It was just such a great era for music, for individuals and characters. It just had a spirit.
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The amount of women we've met that say that we were an inspiration to them growing up, has always been one of the best things about being in the band.
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We were expected to smile and be flirty to everyone. But we acted more like a male rock band. We never mastered the niceties. We were more interested in having a good time.
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If I look back on my life, you can almost tell the story of it through pop songs. Romances as a teenager, your first kiss, first love, first heartbreak.
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Everyone we knew was forming a band. Boy George, Wham! Sade. But it wasn't a big deal, they were our friends. It wasn't like we were hanging out with pop stars.
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I love to sing old Motown songs to myself, or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.
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Women shouldn't have to apologise for their age or growing old. It is just inevitable.
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We've never been good at long-term plans.
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We've always been do-it-yourself. In that we've had complete control.
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How we looked on TV was exactly how we looked during the day.
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Back in the day we didn't really have time to be a live act because we were always on TV or doing live interviews. We were being flown all over the world.
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There are more important things in life than being thin, anyway men prefer women with a bit of meat.
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We never thought of ourselves as a girl band. We dressed like blokes.
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I'm actually quite proud of the fact that we made a success of ourselves in a donkey jacket and DMs, without any thought to sexualising what we were doing.
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I can't even compare ourselves with the Supremes. I adore the Supremes! I can't set myself up as comparison to people I'm in awe of.
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I was very aware as a young mum that I had to be there and not go off the rails. I would go clubbing, then come home and make breakfast for the baby.
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We had to pose with towels wrapped around us, holding rubber rings, that sort of thing. The turning point came when a photographer asked us to get on a fur rug and crawl like cats. We said no, because it was sexist and disrespectful.