Quotes from Keren Woodward

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.'

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.