Keren Woodward Quotes

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Keren Woodward

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 2, 1961

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

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There is nothing worse than a spoilt brat.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I'd hate to be too grown-up. That would be dull.

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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.

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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.

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The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.

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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.

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The amount of women we've met that say that we were an inspiration to them growing up, has always been one of the best things about being in the band.

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We've always written from personal experiences.

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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.

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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.

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

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We never came into the business with a plan beyond the next three months. It's all been a natural thing for us to go off and travel and then maybe record an album.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.'

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