A biography for Keren Woodwardhasn’t been written yet.
“Radio in the U.K. is so formulaic. You've got commercial stations who play the same 20 songs all day.”
“When we first were working, we had no money. We were all sharing this ghastly flat and we had nothing.”
“When Siobhan left, we never fell out or had a huge argument. She just wanted to move to America and do something different.”
“It's a real shame if people feel they have to do anything that makes them uncomfortable to be successful.”
“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've got greasy hair, what can I say?”
“We've always written from personal experiences.”
“Finding out I was expecting a child was highly inconvenient for doing all the promotion for 'Venus.'”
“We've always been do-it-yourself. In that we've had complete control.”
“We never realized how much of an influence we had.”
“We lived at the Sex Pistols' house because we were asked to vacate our room at the YWCA for 'keeping late hours.'”
“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 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.”
“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.”
“We were approached to do the story of Bananarama as a film.”
“I don't know how to write or to be anything other than Bananarama-ish because that's who we are.”
“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 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.”
“It's really odd, but whatever we do and whatever style we might tackle, we always sound like us.”
“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.”