A: We can say all of Jim's. Jim had a tail. He had a blue tail on this side of his hair because he used to go gigging with another band at the time and he used to come back with a pink t-shirt and whole stonewash denim outfit on.
J: I thought I was the Bee Gees. Yeah, I had a few fashion clangers in my time
--- Andrea on Jim's fashion faux pas (MTVAsia.com, Oct '01)

S: The only imitation we ever did was myself and Andrea and this was purely for a laugh at home. We used to pretend that I was the guitarist and Andrea was Dolly Parton and we used to stuff our tops (obviously we had nothing at the time) with tissue paper and cotton wool and that was quite funny.
A: (Laughs) We would have our backs to each other and we would try to go sideways and have humoungous breasts! (MTVAsia.com, Oct '01)

'We're like Destiny's Child but we can't quite dance' --- Andrea Corr on the video of WYBH (London Music Listing, Oct 2001)

'When I'm on my rejuvenation days I have to chill out. 'I'm addicted to Harry Potter at the moment so I'm living in Hogwarts. I'm not on tour at all. Harry is helping me to unwind. Yesterday I had a facial and a massage, ordered room service and watched Shrek. God, I'm really into kids stuff. I don't want to deal with any sad stuff.' --- Andrea Corr on unwinding during the Sept-Oct Far East Tour (London Music Listint, Oct '01)

A: Okay, in ATLITW, I um, when I get to "Love for a moment, love for a lifetime" I take the mic off (leans to her right) and I go to the side (motioning the mic stand to the left). And I put the thing to the left…three times! No I don't. (All laugh)
S: You're nuts
A: No I put it to the left…
J: Taxi for Andrea (motions like hailing a cab)
A: …and that way I hopefully get the high note. But it's all actually psychological. Its nothing to do with…my position doesn't make the high note easier. But it's just that…
S: Craziness.
C: She's actually gone mad.
Int: You're whole family is staring at you.
A: The third taxi.
C: There's loads of taxis waiting uh?
Int: There's a whole stand of taxis waiting..
J: A whole rank. (Getmusic.com, May 31 2001, transcripted by Lincoln)

"It's Valentine in October tonight."--- Andrea Corr, on postponing the Singapore Valentine Day concert till 6 Oct '01

A: I think there's a touch of OCD(obsessive compulsive disorder) in everybody. I really do.
S: Yeah, see?? (Andrea starts touching her head in a rhythmic gesture of OCD-ism and starts counting. All laugh)
J: Cross your legs five times (more laughing)
A: No, but um, I think that on stage I do things that if I want to get right, cause I think the whole night will go wrong if I don't do it in a certain way. And there's a few of them. I won't say what they are, cause people will know them. And because they probably think they're natural. They were natural once but now I have to do them. (Getmusic.com, May 31 2001, transcripted by Lincoln)

J: Its all a bunch of baloney to me. I tend to defy superstition and purposefully walk under ladders. And I just don't, I don't understand it at all. (Getmusic.com, May 31 2001, transcripted by Lincoln)

S: And Andrea can't stand every time we're about to take off or land. She holds onto my arm and I think I'm gonna lose it. We'll be found at the bottom of the sea some day and it'll. just be her hand holding onto my arm (Andrea busts out laughing) (Getmusic.com, May 31 2001, transcripted by Lincoln)

Int: What do you guys do to chill out? Post, post-show?
C: Have a beer (giggles)
A: Ehm
S: Its not Yoga, that's for sure (laughs)
A: Ehm
S: We usually have a beer or something.
C: Or talk...
S: or talk (Getmusic.com, May 31 2001, transcripted by Lincoln)

J:…outdoors. So, I mean, its either that in terms of the biggest audience we've played to is like the Prince's Trust in Hyde Park, or that Rolling Stones gig to 110,000 people
Int: Did ya get a chance to, ya know, pick Jagger and Richards minds for any, ya know.
J: No but Mick couldn't make up his mind which one of my sisters he wanted. (all laugh) OH! Red Card (holds up hand) red card. (Getmusic.com, May 31 2001, transcripted by Lincoln)

Int: Now where's kind of like the strangest place you've played? Like the smallest country? Like where's the, the foreign destination the Corrs have played a gig at?
A: That back garden was a bit odd.
S: In San Diego…That was the strangest destin…the strangest gig was in somebody's back garden, in San Diego.
Int: Who booked that tour? S: I dunno, but we're trying to find them.(all laugh) Yeah, that was very strange. And it started to rain…and that wasn't good. We've had a lot of great gigs. Rome was fantastic, playing the Vatican. (Getmusic.com, May 31 2001, transcripted by Lincoln)

C: Somebody asked me do we have TV's at home. Somebody did ask me that! And this is a long time ago, and I went "What?" I mean, you gotta be kidding! Right? (laughs) (Getmusic.com, May 31 2001, transcripted by Lincoln)

C: I think we went out right afterwards, and had a bit of a celebration afterwards. It was great.
N: You THINK you did...??
C: (laughing) Yeah!
N: ...but you can't remember.( All laughing)
A: We got home three days later and...
J: We've got selective amnesia (Getmusic.com, May 31 2001, transcripted by Lincoln)

A: I was watching MTV. Well not really, but it said, "Oh and coming back next, ehm, we're gonna get the winner of the most, the video you want to see most, right? And this guy was holding up a placard, with all this...and I saw, Una Noche. And I (makes face of surprise joy, big smile) HEYYYYY! Right? And that was me the whole break...then I realized...98 degrees. (laughs) So I was deflated. And that was very funny wasn't it?
Int: Yeah!
S: (with C echoing) Taxi for Andrea
(J waves his arm like he's hailing a cab, A gets up to leave (Getmusic.com, May 31 2001, transcripted by Lincoln)

Int: Uh, lets see here. Toss2001 wants to know what would you guys feel is your most memorable moment on stage? Like, a great gig moment?
J: When my trousers fell down and I showed everybody my briefs (girls giggle) (Getmusic.com, May 31 2001, transcripted by Lincoln)

Int: To return to the current single, ATLITW, what's it gonna be the video concept? Have you guys mapped out a director, or location, or all that kinda stuff?
C: Well its going to be part of a movie as well. Uh, the new Julia Roberts movie...coming out. Ehm, (to Jim) what's it called again? I've forgotten the name.
Int: Runaway Bride II? (joking)
All: Noooo (laughing)
S: Revenge of the runaway bride (Getmusic.com, May 31 2001, transcripted by Lincoln)

Int: Wow. Now my question is, (wry smile, looking at Sharon) how do you fit the honeymoon into the touring schedule?
S: All you do is, you just take it out and you go "I won't be around. I'm just not available" (Getmusic.com, May 31 2001, transcripted by Lincoln)

Int: Cool. Is the wedding going to be in Ireland? Or are you going somewhere else...
S: I'm not saying when or where it is. (rolls eyes and a laugh from Caro)
Int: God forbid the paparazzi is watching.
C: They probably already know.
S: The wedding police are watching (giggle) (Getmusic.com, May 31 2001, transcripted by Lincoln)

"I suppose the best thing is being able to get music we like and write received by so many people, that's a very joyful experience. I suppose the bad thing is, sometimes you wish to just be anonymous, and that's not possible when you're famous. I guess that's just one thing you have to live with." --- Jim on the good and bad sides of being famous (AOL Chat, 14 September 2000)

"I'd say something quirky, something charismatic, funny, a good reaction to life and how ludicrous it actually is but yet how fantastic it is as well. A good strong man, he has to be strong as well." --- Andrea on her ideal guy (Radio 2 Interview with Steve Wright, 6 July 2000, transcripted by claire)

Steve (Int): Okay, if you had to pick you're ideal man, who would it be. Who would be Andrea Corr's ideal, sexiest all time man.
A: Well, if I knew him, I'd probably be with him. (Radio 2 Interview with Steve Wright, 6 July 2000, transcripted by claire)

She was absolutely in love with what we did and our music and everything like that, a very big part of it and it's very reflective of what we went through in the album. It doesn't mean it's a morose album or sad cause I think there's an immense freedom of realising that you don't know what's going to happen in life and I think that the new wonder that comes out of somebody dying can be quite uplifting in a weird way. It's quite ironic but I think it's definitely reflected in it, in the songs, yeah. It's a very honest album. --- Andrea on dedicating In Blue to her late mum (Radio 2 Interview with Steve Wright, 6 July 2000, transcripted by claire)

I'm pretty defensive about it because I hate the idea of popstar turns actress, so if I did do it, I'd want to do it really well and only until I feel I can do that will I do it, then hopefully the dream would be that I'm in a movie and you don't even know I was in a band. --- Andrea on going back to acting (Radio 2 Interview with Steve Wright, 6 July 2000, transcripted by claire)

A: And the drummer with... em... what's the hairy guy's, I can't believe I've just called him a hairy guy! Lenny Kravitz. The drummer with him is pretty sexy, I think. (Radio 2 Interview with Steve Wright, 6 July 2000, transcripted by Claire)

Q: What do you like the most about being famous?
J: We don't see ourselves the way other people perceive us, that's for sure. In Ireland they're very easy going and you can walk down the street and people might recognise you and say hello but they'll leave you alone. It's a cool country to live in as a 'celebrity'. We don't think of ourselves as celebrities. You have to keep grounded as there are lots of distractions and temptations in this business and it's not real at times. At the end of the day we're all the same. (Party In Park, June 2000)

Q: Do you think, as a band, you get on better or worse because you are siblings?
A: We girls give Jim regular beatings!
J: That's why my head is the shape that it is. That's why I'm wearing sunglasses - it was Sharon with a baseball bat! I refused to clean her shoes - I'm sick of cleaning her shoes! Actually I find it very hard to talk about. I have issues, I'm having therapy.
A: There's a place for violence in a family band, it's the logical conclusion after a hard days work.
J: I daren't argue with that! (Party In Park, June 2000)

Q: The penny whistle: why?
A: I was working in McManu's and this guy was playing a traditional Irish wooden flute and it's a lovely sound. So I wanted to learn it and the whistle is the same fingering. But the whistle sounds better with the violin because it's shrill. (Q Magazine, June 1999, Andy Pemberton)

Q: What's your favourite self-penned lyric?
A: Queen Of Hollywood. I saw this documentary and it really frightened me so much. It was in New York about drugs and prostitution. People were living in skips. You could see this prostitute and she was so drugged and everything she did was for drugs. I was so scared of that... (shivering) degradation. When I have nightmares they are of degradation. Humiliation and degradation. People can die of false hope and that's what that song is about. (Q Magazine, June 1999, Andy Pemberton)

"It's a good thing I have money now, because I've always lived like a wealthy person! I'm terrible; I've never been good at living within my means. When we were really broke, I was forever coming home with clothes and pretending I'd brought them in a sale. I'm just thankful now that my earnings have finally caught up with my outgoing." --- Andrea on being a spendthrift (Channel V, February 2001)

"To suddenly have a house of my own was very strange…I have to say the house looked a lot better when I moved in than it does now. Although it does look very good by candle light, and there's a reason for that - every time a bulb goes, I haven't replaced it because I don't know how to." --- Andrea on owning her own house (Channel V, February 2001)

Note: All previous QOTW have been added to the respective Profile and Quotes pages (230401)