Geri Halliwell Quotes

"My mother saw him on telly and said: "He looks so much like your father!" So now I think I`m Pete`s secret love child!" (Speaking about her fellow judge on Pop Idol: The Rivals, Pete Waterman.)

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

I have always wanted a solo career, deep in the darkest pit of myself, but I didn`t dare admit it to myself even. It took me a long time to confront my fears.

I want everything I do to be special and fun. Everything I have done I have always done passionately, with all my heart and soul.

There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don`t know what drives someone to be nasty.

I know that I`ve overfed myself trying to prop myself up because I`m exhausted.

It`s really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.

Everyone has a mad half-hour once a month.

Being mean about other people isn`t on my radar.

I won`t mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster.

I am happy but a piece of me is still really sad. It runs like from my shoulder across my breast, across my heart. I`ve had growing pains in my brain.

Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.

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

I am absolutely blessed and I`m very grateful for where I am today.

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.

The truth sets you free. It`s a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It`s amazing.

I still cry a lot. I cry about the Spice Girls and I cry about my dad. He died just before I joined the band. I was always Daddy`s little girl.

Some people are naturally thin and some people are naturally heavier. It doesn`t mean that bigger is healthier, or much thinner is healthier, it`s on an individual basis.

I didn`t want to leave the Spice Girls and immediately have a record on the back of that fame, so I waited to find out who I am and what I want.

We are obsessed with image. I don`t think we should take it that seriously.

Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It`s much more intense.

I`d never choose to turn the clock back.

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 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.

I don`t know what I`m doing, but I`m damn well gonna do it!

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.

There`s always going to be that pressure when you`re in front of the camera. When you`re famous it`s just an extreme version of reality and there`s a pressure to look a certain way.

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?