Musician

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

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 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.

There is nothing worse than a spoilt brat.

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

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.

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

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!'

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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