Thousands of kids see you as stars--how do you see yourselves?
Edele: Tomboyish.
Lindsay: We've been named the first tomboy band ever. 
But you still wear lipstick.
Lindsay: We have to wear lipstick and makeup to bring out our features and look good in photographs. If we had our way, we wouldn't wear it at all. But I like getting my hair done. It's really relaxing.
Edele: When we have a day off, we never wear any makeup. People think it's great to get your hair and makeup done all the time, but after two years of an hour and a half every day, it gets a bit annoying. 

Do you ever get tired of smiling?
Keavy: I hate not smiling! It's weird doing a photograph and someone asks me not to smile. I'm like, I have to smile! But sometimes my face gets tired. 

How did you decide who got to have which hair?
Lindsay: Well, mine's naturally curly.
Edele: I'd wanted to have red hair for a long time, so I just got it. Lindsay wanted to have both straight and curly hair, but they said they wanted her to stick with the one image for starters. We need for people to know our faces first before we start changing. 

Were you living on your own when you formed the band?
Edele: Sinead was on her own, but the rest of us were living at home. When we moved to England, we moved into a house together. That was really our first time away from home. We became a second family to each other. 

Don't you drive each other crazy, touring and living together?
Lindsay: No! It's great fun. We actually get along quite well. When we're on the road, we don't get a lot of time to socialize, because we're working all the time. So, we like each other's company after work.
Keavy: It's quite surprising how we all get along, because we're in each other's pockets 24 hours a day. We never have fallen out, never have had huge arguments or anything like that. We're lucky. 

Tell me some of your weirdest fan encounters. 
Sinead: We haven't had any bad fan experiences. Generally, they're quite nice. There's a group in England that always meets us at the airport and gives us travel sweets for when we go on long journeys. We've gotten weird presents, though. I got a half-pound of butter. 

Why?
Sinead: I think I said on the TV once that I liked Irish butter, so this girl turned up outside the station with a half-pound of Irish butter. I used it.
Keavy: I got a bag of carrots from a fan. It happened the same day. I suppose I said I liked eating raw carrots. 

What do you eat when you're on the road?
Edele: We try to get as much home-cooked food as we can, because we don't like eating out that much. We have someone who comes around with us, and she cooks for us on the bus sometimes. 
So, you actually like Irish food?
Edele: Yeah! That's one thing we really miss when we're away: good Irish food.
Lindsay: Good Irish chicken stew and potatoes. I love boiled potatoes. Over here in America, they think you're mad if you ask for boiled potatoes.
Edele: It's like, "No, we only have French fries or a baked potatoes." Even roasted potatoes you very rarely come across. Why is that? 

Hmmm, I don't know.
Lindsay: We love potatoes in Ireland. 

Do you like junk food?
Keavy: Yeah. Crisps and chocolates and popcorn...
Sinead: Can we not talk about this? I'm off sugar at the moment. 

Besides America's boiled-potato famine, have you had many culture shocks while traveling?
Sinead: There was one time in France when I walked into the bathroom and the loo was just a hole in the floor. That was a shock. But I got over it pretty quickly. 

Are any of you in love right now?
Sinead: We're in love with our job. 

Oh, come on.
Keavy: No, really. It's hard to meet people. You do meet a lot of people along the way, but you literally meet them for 10 minutes: Hi, bye. You don't get enough time to get to know somebody or to fall in love with them or even start to like them. So, it's quite hard. 

What's the best way to impress you in 10 minutes?
Sinead: Just by being polite, I think. 

Some people say flossing your teeth is important to making a good first impression.
Keavy: I think that would be quite weird, to see them flossing their teeth while standing in the middle of a room. 

I meant dental hygiene in general.
Keavy: Oh. I suppose good teeth are important, but I wouldn't judge someone by their teeth. 

You have very straight teeth. Did you have braces?
Keavy: I wore braces when I was about 16--train tracks. The thought of getting 'em bothered me, but when the time came to take them off, I was like, "No, I don't want to! Put them back on!" 
Sinead: I think train tracks are actually quite nice. 

Would you go on a date with Marilyn Manson if he were wearing braces?
Sinead: I don't think I'd go on a date with him, but I wouldn't say no if he said, "I'd like to meet B*Witched."
Keavy: I don't think I'd like to go out to dinner with anyone I'd never met before. I hate that. I couldn't eat in front of somebody I didn't know. People find that weird. They say, "Of course, you could!" But I just can't. 

What if it was your favorite movie star?
Keavy: I suppose if somebody offered me a date with Mel Gibson, I wouldn't say no. 
Does being labeled a teenybop group piss you off?
Keavy: Not if people call us teenyboppers when they're trying to explain us. We are young, and we're having fun. What they call us doesn't matter. The main thing is that people are hearing us. 

Having so many kids looking up to you as role models must be a scary responsibility.
Edele: No, it doesn't feel that way at all, because we have quite a positive image. The way we are naturally is okay for kids to watch. We've had a lot of mothers come up to us and say, "You're great role models for my child." 

Do you specifically think about little girls looking at you and saying, "Wow, that's cool, I could do that"?
Lindsay: Mainly little girls, yeah. But little boys as well. Oh, wait, I see what you mean. You mean, like "girl power" or something?
Edele: We don't really play on the "girl power" thing. We'll leave that to the Spice Girls. It really worked for them, and I think it did give young girls confidence to actually do what they wanted to do, but we believe we've got...[dramatic pause]...magic. 

As in, B*Witching magic?
Edele: Exactly. 

Do you consider yourselves feminists?
Sinead: Not at all. 

Does the word feminist have negative connotations for you?
Sinead: No. I mean, we're not feminists, but there are people out there who are. Everybody has their own opinions and lives by their own ideas, really. We don't really agree or disagree. It's just there.
Keavy: We're just out for our career. It doesn't bother us that there are no guys in our group. For us, B*Witched is four girls, but that doesn't mean we diss guys or we're against them doing the same thing. We're out to make girls and guys smile. 

Keavy, do you and Edele ever play twin tricks?
Keavy: Once, when we were on Top of the Pops, I dressed up as Edele. I took my fringe away and put red extensions in my hair and wore her hat and clothes. Not even our manager could tell us apart. It was great. 

If you could change one thing about the world, what would it be?
Sinead: I would like to stop poverty and homelessness and make everybody be equal.
Keavy: I'd like to put a happy spell on the world. And under that, poverty would be gone and everybody would be happy and the wars would be stopped and everything like that. 
Lindsay: Our main message is to just have fun and enjoy life while you can, because you only live once. 

If you could live twice, what would you want to be reincarnated as?
Lindsay: A person, preferably.