What's Andrea like in person?

A: "I can't read-whose writing is this ? Oh, hang on, it's mine"

Without their make-up on they look miraculously younger and fairer. But there is a problem. Andrea doesn't like the nuts in her cereal and starts picking them out, prompting a series of jibes from the others about her "neurotic" behaviour.

S: "Who's that group who used to insist on their rider that they had to have M&Ms with all the brown ones removed? Van Halen? Right. Well, if Andrea carries on like this we'll have to start demanding muesli with all the nuts removed in future."
-----Q magazine, September 1998, David Sinclair, Transcribed by Mary Nickson

A:"Music is romantic enough for me."
-----'RTE Guide, March 1999, Alan Corr, Transcribed by Kevin

A: "I remember first singing Runaway with that silly line 'by candlelight, make love to me through the night'. And I was just turning my face away from my parents, so embarrassed, waiting for my mother to exclaim, "My God, where did you learn that?!?"

A: I was never meant for the violin! (hands it towards Sharon)
----- British TV/November 6, 1998 Chris Evans, Transcribed by Tom Mitchell

S: We have to keep a leash on Andrea, label all her things. If she doesn't lose something on tour, she'll get lost herself.

C: You're actually pretty lucky to get through a show without Andrea making at least one mistake.

J: She was such a cuddly little button as a baby. Then she was a cuddly little, sticky, messy button. Now she's this thing that blasts my ears with a tin whistle if I'm not up by 9am.

A: "This is the Joys Of Life...no it's not...

A: "Music is sexy. Music is sensual. And an expression of yourself and that side of you comes out sometimes. I know I can be like that on stage bit it's innocent. I don't do anything...I just get into it, feel it." And then she sucks her thumb
----- Q Magazine, June 1999, Andy Pemberton