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Caroline Quotes

         I can drive...A golf buggy!

Interviewer: Any confessions you'd like to get off your chests?
Caroline (on Andrea): There's only about a year between us and she's probably my best friend!

                 "You're actually pretty lucky to get through a show without her (Andrea) making at least one mistake."

...Jim never hit us but we girls used to fight. Plenty of hair was pulled!

There's actually 14 in our family, but we disowned the others.

We pretty much needed a drummer, and I, well... I had nothing better to do.

Our parents were musicians. My mother... OUR mother, I wasn't supposed to say my!

                 Sharon was the eldest so she had the most sophisticated clothes. Poor Andrea and I had to make do with her hand-me-downs!

                   You know the band the Cure? How Robert Smith's hair went up in the air? When I was a kid, I dyed my hair black and had it up in the air, too. Then, you know, I came to my senses.

Men in boxers, definitely, I like how they shake a lot more.

 I hit them hard, then I hit them harder still and hope they don't break. (talking about her cymbals)

No, it's OK now, I will just stay quiet for the rest of the interview.

How do you say 'It's good to be home' in an American accent?

We miss out on a lot of sleep, we miss out on going home and making our own dinner.

This is who we are, and you can only be yourself.

                 I've never had trolley rage, although I have got very irritated if there's been a load of people crowding round the vegetables blocking my way to the mangetout.

Interviewer: Any last messages for our viewers?
Caroline: Yes, buy our records, please.

Interviewer: Where do you see yourself 10 years down the road?
                 Caroline: I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!! (laughs)

Interviewer: Jim, you being the big brother there with 3 little sisters, do you assume the fatherly role?
Caroline Corr: Father?!? Oh my God!!!

                   Caroline : I think at the moment we kinda have to leave that out, unless you've met somebody before we started all
               this, then maybe you'll keep some sort of substantial thing going...but - there's nothing substantial in my life though!

                     Caroline: So after I missed out on the violin lessons...I had originally been the piano player in the band actually and
                       then em, an old boyfriend of mine had a drum kit next door and I started playing away and everybody heard me and said y'know this is a good thing, let's incorporate this into the band, and we did, so I became the drummer!
Interviewer: So have you had any kind of drum lessons since then?
Caroline: No
Interviewer: You've just practiced.
Caroline: Yeah, just practiced
Interviewer: Read a book about it or?
                   Caroline: Well originally I had a few lessons in my hometown from a teacher but then I was on the road, so I had no time to actually do it.
Interviewer: Does it make your arms strong?
Caroline: Em, it does yeah, it definitely does, it's nice and painful around the back...!

                    We're not like, say, The Spice Girls. I'm not slagging them off as I think that they've got some great songs but
                they're more of an image band. We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the
                    strength of our music. I mean I don't get up every morning and look in the mirror and think, 'Oh wow, aren't I gorgeous!'
                     I mean if it's helped us, it's great, but we really try not to emphasis that aspect of the band. We do it because we love to play music and that's what we're all about.

Interviewer: Do you think female singers have to look good?
    I think it's more pressure on women in the music industry to look good. Look at Courtney Love. She's switched
                   from looking horrendous to looking fantastic. Suddenly she looks like a model! Most women, if you're in entertainment, have to do the whole make-up and hair thing. You're in the public eye, you have to work on it.

                     Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a
                  school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.

                     It was funny cos we all seemed to take on different instruments, the only instrument we all play is the piano actually
                 which our father taught us as kids. Sharon went on to play classical but we actually went into totally different instruments which was lucky for the band because otherwise we'd all be playing the same thing!!

                   (on seeing their documentary) I'm sure when I see myself I'll go 'oh God!!'. I used to play the piano in the band, and so
                there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards. We used to rehearse together constantly as if we were
                     about to do some major shows, even though we weren't!! I don't know what it was. I think I'll look at it and say 'oh God,
                  I look so young' or 'my hair is really long down my back' or 'I look really stupid' ...half the time we didn't know what we were doing and the songs were so pop and so...God!! Listening back, it was horrendous!!

Interviewer: What's the difference between singing in Italian and in English.
Caroline Corr: You don't know what you say!!!

Interviewer: So do you smoke or drink?
                    Caroline: I enjoy drinking! What are you talking about, I'm from Ireland! But I think if you're on stage, what you do is
                  going to make an impression on kids and influence them. I think we should take responsibility for people that are watching you. You should care what image you give.