Caroline Corr Quotations

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

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

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.

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

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

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!!!

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

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

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

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

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

We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music.

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

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.

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

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.

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

We play our Irish songs a bit more loosely.

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

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

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

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

Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.

Yes, we record practically everything on Pro Tools.

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.

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.

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!!

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.

Our parents were musicians.

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.

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

We're lucky to have the family connection. We're close and close musically as well.

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 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.

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.