Quotes from Geri Halliwell

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

I've always made my own clothes since I was a little girl. I was a terrible sewer, but I was always cutting and customising.

I'm done with trying to be perfect. A perfect body belongs to somebody else - and it's not me.

I like doing accents. One of my friends works in hotel reservations and I'll ring her up and complain about the suite. Sometimes I get her.

I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but I would rather try and fall than not not try at all.

I'm so supported, and I'm so privileged. So many women today are single parents; I don't feel different. I think you get out of life what you put into it... and Bluebell was a beautiful accident. I feel blessed to have her. I'm learning every day as a mother.

If people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that's fine. But going beyond the surface can enrich ourselves as human beings.

First my mother was Spanish. Then she became a Jehovahs Witness.

I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.

I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than a documentary ever could.

It is a blessing to have pretty people around me. I like people who are sparky, positive. Evil, dark people are repelled by me: Oooh no! Too much sunlight.

'Spice Girls' is about unifying the world - every age, every gender, everyone. It's woman power, it's an essence, a tribe.

For me reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

We hope for the future, then we reach for the past.

Lyrically I'm very ironic and silly, but I hope I'll touch your heart

Celebrity has some amazing advantages, of course it does. You're given an extraordinary power. It's a door-opener. I might not have to queue for things.

I have been wearing black, which was a reaction to the Ginger thing. But now I have hopes and I can be anything. Tomorrow I might be naked with a feather boa, who knows?

I was a late starter on the romantic front. I didn't start dating until I was in my 30s.

Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.

The thing is, when I feel like I have to lose weight, the opposite happens. I remember stuffing loads of chocolate on the plane to the shoot, and I thought, 'Why don't you have the courage to show up in a body that's natural, not overly worked out?'

I was so afraid of upsetting people, and not being liked for saying something that was not to everyone's taste.

I'm never getting too lonely because it's the kind of disease where you might sit in front of the TV with three bags of biscuits, rather than communicate with the world.

I have got one of those faces that change every day: you can dress me up, make me look vampy and then make me look 12 years old. But don't all women do this thing? We all take on these roles.

It's important to learn to laugh at ourselves. Don't take life too seriously.