Keren Woodward

“We want people to enjoy our music.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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 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 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.”

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

“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 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.”

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

“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 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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”