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A lot of my family were teachers, so that's what I always thought I'd end up being.

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.

We were approached to do the story of Bananarama as a film.

I've got greasy hair, what can I say?

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.

When we first were working, we had no money. We were all sharing this ghastly flat and we had nothing.

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.

I think it was about 1990 when we first wore heels to perform.

It's a real shame if people feel they have to do anything that makes them uncomfortable to be successful.

I might have been told to put a comb through my hair once or twice - by my mother!

It's really odd, but whatever we do and whatever style we might tackle, we always sound like us.

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!'

Most of the people we worked with were men. And the women were secretaries.

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.

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.

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.

Women shouldn't have to apologise for their age or growing old. It is just inevitable.

It's not like we don't have any talent. We can't sing like Whitney Houston, but we can sing well.

There are more important things in life than being thin, anyway men prefer women with a bit of meat.

I've never been on a diet that lasted more than a day.

How we looked on TV was exactly how we looked during the day.

You can be normal if you choose to be.

Being paid to travel the world with your best mates, you really can't complain.

I don't really get that, when groups tour together or even do anything together when they hate each other.

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.

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.

The record label used to try and make us do stuff, like dance, and we'd say, nah, not doing that.

We lived at the Sex Pistols' house because we were asked to vacate our room at the YWCA for 'keeping late hours.'

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.

We got a gay following around the time we started using camp dancers who were stripped to the waist in cycling shorts and aviators.

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.

We were always around music and we were lucky to be in the right place at the right time, knowing the right friends.

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.

When you've known someone for so long you never lose that friendship.

We were all friends who formed a band. We weren't auditioned or put together by a record label, management company or TV show.

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.

When Siobhan left, we never fell out or had a huge argument. She just wanted to move to America and do something different.

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.

We never thought of ourselves as a girl band. We dressed like blokes.

I'm not worried about wrinkles on my cheeks, or going grey. I'm not trying to be 20.

There is nothing worse than a spoilt brat.

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.

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.

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.

I'd hate to be too grown-up. That would be dull.

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.

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.

The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.

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.

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.

We've always written from personal experiences.

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.

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.

My dad was fine, but I have to say my mum was upset when I said I was leaving home.

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.

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 been do-it-yourself. In that we've had complete control.

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.

We've sung to prerecorded tracks and things like that, but we've never done a proper world tour with a band and everything.

We spent a couple of years trying to be what we thought people wanted us to be, what the press thought we should be, doing what the company wanted. Finally we just said 'Sod it. This is what we do best. We're best at making pop records that people enjoy and having fun and entertaining them.'

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.

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.

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.

We never realized how much of an influence we had.

We've never been good at long-term plans.

Finding out I was expecting a child was highly inconvenient for doing all the promotion for 'Venus.'

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.

Radio in the U.K. is so formulaic. You've got commercial stations who play the same 20 songs all day.

I find it really irritating when a band changes the melody of a song you know.

I don't know how to write or to be anything other than Bananarama-ish because that's who we are.

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.

We didn't want to be famous. We just loved the music and excitement.

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.

When we go out, we do enjoy ourselves. We don't worry about whether or not people will recognize us.

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.

We're best at doing pop music - we're not good at doing down, depressing music.

The group has always been based on friendship and a certain attitude.

The band is our whole lives and we are completely dedicated, but if you get too serious you'll have a lot of problems and if you don't enjoy what you are doing you shouldn't be doing it.

We want people to enjoy our music.

Pop music is a constant reminder of what you were doing at the time, it holds all sorts of memories.

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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