Bananarama Quotes
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Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can.
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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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Fashion goes round in circles.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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There are more important things in life than being thin, anyway men prefer women with a bit of meat.
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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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Music bypasses the intellect, it makes you laugh, makes you cry, makes you want to dance, makes you want to have sex.
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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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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'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13.
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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.