Top 82 Quotes & Sayings by Keren Woodward
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Last updated on December 3, 2024.
The record label used to try and make us do stuff, like dance, and we'd say, nah, not doing that.
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.
The first time I got recognized in the Sates, it was by Mike Tyson. He sang 'Cruel Summer' at us as we were walking out of the hotel to go to the beach.
How we looked on TV was exactly how we looked during the day.
Most of the people we worked with were men. And the women were secretaries.
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.
Being paid to travel the world with your best mates, you really can't complain.
We were approached to do the story of Bananarama as a film.
There is nothing worse than a spoilt brat.
We never thought of ourselves as a girl band. We dressed like blokes.
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.
I just felt very young and unprepared. I didn't know anyone who'd been pregnant, and I didn't know anyone who'd had a baby. Because everyone around me didn't really get it, I just kept on as though nothing was happening, even though I was slightly scared and throwing up everywhere.
When you've known someone for so long you never lose that friendship.
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.
Thank god magazines like 'Heat' weren't around in our day. The thought of someone catching you unawares on a beach and publishing photos of your cellulite... it's so hurtful, causes so many problems.
It's really odd, but whatever we do and whatever style we might tackle, we always sound like us.
We were all friends who formed a band. We weren't auditioned or put together by a record label, management company or TV show.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If people want to compare us to the Shangri-Las, then that's all well and good. But those groups were put together. They were told what to sing, dressed up, neatly packaged. We're like the '80s version in that we're more outgoing, more involved in it.
A lot of my family were teachers, so that's what I always thought I'd end up being.
We've always been do-it-yourself. In that we've had complete control.
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.
We used to do 'Venus' live for a long time but never got 'round to recording it because people would always say it's too old-fashioned a song.
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.
I might have been told to put a comb through my hair once or twice - by my mother!
It's a real shame if people feel they have to do anything that makes them uncomfortable to be successful.
We never came into the business with a plan beyond the next three months. It's all been a natural thing for us to go off and travel and then maybe record an album.
I think we've got the tracks that everyone wants to sing along to. A lot of people say, 'God, I've forgotten you've had so many hits!'
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.
When you're in a band it's a 24/7 thing. If you don't get on or like each other things will fall apart very quickly, which is what it seems happened with Fifth Harmony.
There are more important things in life than being thin, anyway men prefer women with a bit of meat.
Women shouldn't have to apologise for their age or growing old. It is just inevitable.
I definitely think we paved the way for other girl groups. We did it very much on our own terms without kowtowing to all the men in the business or being told what to do by anyone. For that we feel very proud.
We lived at the Sex Pistols' house because we were asked to vacate our room at the YWCA for 'keeping late hours.'
We got a gay following around the time we started using camp dancers who were stripped to the waist in cycling shorts and aviators.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We've always written from personal experiences.
My dad was fine, but I have to say my mum was upset when I said I was leaving home.
I've got greasy hair, what can I say?
I don't really get that, when groups tour together or even do anything together when they hate each other.
I've never been on a diet that lasted more than a day.
When Siobhan left, we never fell out or had a huge argument. She just wanted to move to America and do something different.
I'd hate to be too grown-up. That would be dull.
I think it was about 1990 when we first wore heels to perform.
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.
We were always around music and we were lucky to be in the right place at the right time, knowing the right friends.
You can be normal if you choose to be.
It's not like we don't have any talent. We can't sing like Whitney Houston, but we can sing well.
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.
I'm not worried about wrinkles on my cheeks, or going grey. I'm not trying to be 20.
When we first were working, we had no money. We were all sharing this ghastly flat and we had nothing.
The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.
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.
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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