Caroline Corr Quotes

I really didn`t even have time to get that many lessons, to be honest, because I was suddenly on the road. I was kind of thrown in the deep end. But that wasn`t a bad thing when I look back at it.

We play our Irish songs a bit more loosely.

I love Cindy Blackman, I think she`s an amazing player. And she`s got the whole image going. It`s simple, nothing crazy, but she`s just really solid.

Oh yeah, we all write. That`s what`s great about when you have basics in piano.

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.

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

When I was drumming with Mick Fleetwood I thought I looked half mad. I thought I looked half crazy.

I used to play the piano in the band, and so there`s some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards.

Waking up with a bad head in the morning is difficult sometimes.

I`ve always stayed pretty fit. I felt I needed to give myself energy by exercising and things like that.

I mean, y`know, platinum is different in every country, which can be confusing.

And I`ve played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.

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!!!

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!!

I really like to have a bit of direction, you know?

We do it because we love to play music and that`s what we`re all about.

That tour we did in early `97, we did like 4 continents in 3 weeks. We were so jet lagged that it all canceled out. I am like an entire day behind.

Yeah, we sit there eating breakfast, just glaring at each other, kind of daring anyone to speak... it`s very good thinking time.

We go in and I do my thing, and then we supplement it with whatever we want.

Our parents were musicians.

A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it`s been good to be involved completely musically as well.

It`s been crazy trying to tour with a baby. But it`s actually working out okay.

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.

Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also had regular jobs because they had kids and stuff like that.

In Ireland, it`s been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they`re Irish.

Actually, I wear the nail polish to hide how grubby my nails are.

We spent a long time on this album, so it was very creative in the sense that we had the time and the luxury to do whatever we wanted to do.

Well I had a musical background, but I still didn`t know a lot about drums at the time.

I`m not the hottest tuner on the planet, so I normally get someone to come out and do it for me.

I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.

There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.

Yes, we record practically everything on Pro Tools.

But I do have an idea in my head before I go in about what I`m going to do.

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 do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.

I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.