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We want people to enjoy our music.
We've never been good at long-term plans.
There is nothing worse than a spoilt brat.
We've always written from personal experiences.
The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.
I'd hate to be too grown-up. That would be dull.
I've never been on a diet that lasted more than a day.
I think it was about 1990 when we first wore heels to perform.
We didn't want to be famous. We just loved the music and excitement.
We've always been do-it-yourself. In that we've had complete control.
We never thought of ourselves as a girl band. We dressed like blokes.
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.
Most of the people we worked with were men. And the women were secretaries.
I find it really irritating when a band changes the melody of a song you know.
We're best at doing pop music - we're not good at doing down, depressing music.
Being paid to travel the world with your best mates, you really can't complain.
I might have been told to put a comb through my hair once or twice - by my mother!
My dad was fine, but I have to say my mum was upset when I said I was leaving home.
I'm not worried about wrinkles on my cheeks, or going grey. I'm not trying to be 20.
Women shouldn't have to apologise for their age or growing old. It is just inevitable.
It's really odd, but whatever we do and whatever style we might tackle, we always sound like us.
The record label used to try and make us do stuff, like dance, and we'd say, nah, not doing that.
It's not like we don't have any talent. We can't sing like Whitney Houston, but we can sing well.
Finding out I was expecting a child was highly inconvenient for doing all the promotion for 'Venus.'
There are more important things in life than being thin, anyway men prefer women with a bit of meat.
Pop music is a constant reminder of what you were doing at the time, it holds all sorts of memories.
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.
It's a real shame if people feel they have to do anything that makes them uncomfortable to be successful.
We lived at the Sex Pistols' house because we were asked to vacate our room at the YWCA for 'keeping late hours.'
We've sung to prerecorded tracks and things like that, but we've never done a proper world tour with a band and everything.
We were all friends who formed a band. We weren't auditioned or put together by a record label, management company or TV show.
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.
We got a gay following around the time we started using camp dancers who were stripped to the waist in cycling shorts and aviators.
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.
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!'
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.
It never worked having a management style where someone would try to tell us what to do. It's never been the sort of group that we are.
We were completely DIY and very opinionated. We weren't the type that sat back or do what we're told… We never listened to many people.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.