Quotes from Keren Woodward

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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