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We're best at doing pop music - we're not good at doing down, depressing music.
Keren Woodward Bananarama -
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.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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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.
Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama -
I consider the Stooges to be pop music.
Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama -
I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist.
Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama -
You'd better hope and pray That you make it safe Back to your own world You'd better hope and pray That you'll wake one day in your own world 'Cause when you sleep at night They don't hear your cries in your own world Only time will tell if you can break the spell Back in your own world.
Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama -
We were so young when we started, quite naive and shy - we kind of knew what we were doing but didn't because we hadn't been stage schooled.
Keren Woodward Bananarama -
We never thought of ourselves as a girl band. We dressed like blokes.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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We got a gay following around the time we started using camp dancers who were stripped to the waist in cycling shorts and aviators.
Keren Woodward Bananarama -
If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.
Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama -
You can be normal if you choose to be.
Keren Woodward Bananarama -
Pop music is a constant reminder of what you were doing at the time, it holds all sorts of memories.
Keren Woodward Bananarama -
I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?
Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama -
Most of the people we worked with were men. And the women were secretaries.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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We were signed to a label that wanted us to remain little girls who appealed to other little girls, who were cute and non-threatening.
Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama -
You put something you like on really loud, and you feel godlike.
Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama -
I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me.
Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama -
I don't know how to write or to be anything other than Bananarama-ish because that's who we are.
Keren Woodward Bananarama -
I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music... It's my fascination, my on-going passion.
Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama -
When do you know you're insane? And when do you known you're sane? I think I treat a fine line between the two. It's a battle to function, but somehow I manage.
Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
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Depression scares people off. It makes me laugh that it has that kind of effect.
Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama -
I can't remember what the last film I saw was, as I can't smoke or drink in cinemas.
Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama -
If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.
Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama -
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.
Keren Woodward Bananarama