Quotes from Keren Woodward

We were expected to smile and be flirty to everyone. But we acted more like a male rock band. We never mastered the niceties. We were more interested in having a good time.

If I look back on my life, you can almost tell the story of it through pop songs. Romances as a teenager, your first kiss, first love, first heartbreak.

We were all friends who formed a band. We weren't auditioned or put together by a record label, management company or TV show.

There is nothing worse than a spoilt brat.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We want people to enjoy our music.

If people want to compare us to the Shangri-Las, then that's all well and good. But those groups were put together. They were told what to sing, dressed up, neatly packaged. We're like the '80s version in that we're more outgoing, more involved in it.

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

We used to do 'Venus' live for a long time but never got 'round to recording it because people would always say it's too old-fashioned a song.

When Siobhan left, we never fell out or had a huge argument. She just wanted to move to America and do something different.

We never thought of ourselves as a girl band. We dressed like blokes.

People thought we were intimidating, especially once we'd had a few drinks, but when I look back we were virtually on top of each other, holding hands. We sounded so stupid.

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