"A lot of my family were teachers, so that's what I always thought I'd end up being."
"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."
"We were approached to do the story of Bananarama as a film."
"I've got greasy hair, what can I say?"
"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."
"When we first were working, we had no money. We were all sharing this ghastly flat and we had nothing."
"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."
"I think it was about 1990 when we first wore heels to perform."
"It's a real shame if people feel they have to do anything that makes them uncomfortable to be successful."
"I might have been told to put a comb through my hair once or twice - by my mother!"
"It's really odd, but whatever we do and whatever style we might tackle, we always sound like us."
"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!'"
"Most of the people we worked with were men. And the women were secretaries."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Women shouldn't have to apologise for their age or growing old. It is just inevitable."
"It's not like we don't have any talent. We can't sing like Whitney Houston, but we can sing well."
"There are more important things in life than being thin, anyway men prefer women with a bit of meat."
"I've never been on a diet that lasted more than a day."
"How we looked on TV was exactly how we looked during the day."
"You can be normal if you choose to be."
"Being paid to travel the world with your best mates, you really can't complain."
"I don't really get that, when groups tour together or even do anything together when they hate each other."
"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."
