- [on Queen] They've kind of got everything.
- [on Queen at Live Aid] It was just electric.
- [on Freddie Mercury] He could just hold the audience in the palm of his hand. He moved with such grace and vocally he never missed a note. His talent and his personality shone through so much, he was never gonna not be cool.
- I've always admired Freddie Mercury so much and when he passed away I was really really upset by that. He will never be replaced, never.
- My five-year-old daughter loves Rihanna. But she has no idea what her idol looks like because there's little footage that I'm happy for her to see. It's a shame that a talented, successful woman expresses herself in such an overtly sexual way.
- [Geri Halliwell: Has anyone ever eaten cat food?] Oh yeah. I've ate cat food. [Mel B: Have you?] [Geri: I think I've eaten the biscuits.] Oh yeah. I've eaten dog biscuits. [Mel B: Melanie C eats dog biscuits!] Didn't you used to do dares with your cousin to get each other to eat dog biscuits?
- I always ended up playing a sheep at the nativity play while the other girls dressed as angels. I didn't mind though, in fact I'd rather have played Joseph.
- A few days before my first day I'd fallen off my brother's bike and got a terrible gash on my knee, so I had to go and see the nurse. This meant on my first day at school I had to limp around.
- I met a rather dishy guy called Andy in a bar in Spain in 1990. Even though I don't smoke I borrowed a cigarette from a friend and offered him one to break the ice. We got on really well, we danced, we laughed and generally had a jolly good time. We kept in touch until Christmas when he mysteriously disappeared. Sadly that was the end of him!
- I used to hang around the bikesheds with other girls from my school and we'd smoke fags. I decided that smoking wasn't girl power and it wasn't cool, so I quit.
- We shot the video for 'Who Do You Think You Are' in a really mad club - a real dive. The toilets were horrible and we had to have our make-up done in a Winnebago. The vibe was excellent, though - I think it was my favourite video because it was such good fun. I felt like a proper pop star. [...] It was just how you imagine it when you're young.
- I have a soft spot for shy and melancholy types. I just can't resist dark and sad eyes.
- I'm quite shy and I find it difficult approaching guys.
- I don't like macho guys. I love confident men who believe in themselves.
- [on Jamie Redknapp] He's gorgeous, whenever he speaks to me I just go to pieces. Recently he's been looking even more gorgeous with his long hair. Ooh God.
- You won't get me on your side by asking me to a fancy restaurant or any of that sissy stuff. What would interest me is an invitation to a football match.
- The biggest lie I've ever told is that I'm good at football. I'm not, I'm pretty rubbish at it actually. Everyone assumes I'm good because I play but it isn't true.
- Yeah, I've got really different tastes, but at the moment I'm really into the Britpop scene, you know, Blur, Oasis, Supergrass. I kinda like all the big guitar bands, but my favourite artist of all times is Stevie Wonder. But I'm a big Madonna fan as well, so it varies.
- [on Bryan Adams] We couldn't believe how dinky he was...
- If Oasis are bigger than God, what does that make us [Spice Girls]? Bigger than Buddha? Because we are a darn sight bigger than Oasis.
- I really want to learn to play guitar. I've got one, I've got me a semi-acoustic. I know a few chords and stuff. At the moment I'm just writing vocally and it's frustrating. I don't want to see the Spice Girls turn into Blur, but it'd be nice to play an instrument.
- When we're nervous and excited we all handle it in different ways. Mel B gets really boisterous, whereas I just sit in the corner and don't speak to anyone!
- I'm listening to a lot of William Orbit albums. I also like Natalie Imbruglia, Robbie Williams, and All Saints. But Blur are my favourite band.
- It's not just an image with me. When we started out, our first management told us we should all wear the same clothes. Well, we didn't think much of that. I was a sporty child who did loads of athletics and gymnastics. Then I studied dance. Geri first introduced me to the gym and now I work out four times a week for two hours at a time and I surprise myself with how fit I am. It helps me cope with stress. I can lose myself there. When I'm on the treadmill I feel safe - nobody can hassle me.
- I met Bryan Adams in LA,. Then he rang me at home to ask me to sing on his new album. The only person who rings me at home is my mum, so when I answered I automatically said, 'Hello, Mum.' And he said, 'No, it's Bryan, Bryan Adams.' He sounded quite startled!
- [on Courtney Love] She's a talented, mixed-up woman. She was great to meet, though. She took the mickey out of me by impersonating my Liverpool accent and she was better at it than me.
- Well yeah, I can see that we're all fairly attractive and not obese or anything. But that makes it even more horrifying when someone takes a dodgy pic of Victoria with a double chin and puts the headline 'Podge Spice' on it. If the papers are calling us fat, what the hell is some young girl who is big going to think? It's disgusting really.
- I'd much rather be Indie Spice than Sporty Spice. I've got all this pressure to keep trim as Sporty Spice. I used to drink loads of pints of Kronenbourg and black but I had to stop cos I was getting a beer gut. But I could probably be fat old lazy Spice if I was the indie one...
- Version of Me is about being bullied, about being in a situation as a young adult where I felt bullied and how that has affected me, and moulded me in a way. Unfortunately, being bullied can really damage people and even when you are stronger and over it, it can still be in the background - undermining you. I hope people will identify with that track.
- Now I'm older, I'm a lot more confident and I will not be shat upon. But when I was younger I let people shit on me. What's done is done but I'd have liked to have been a bit stronger. When we were kids we were so hard on each other and so determined to succeed that if anybody fell out of line they were quickly brought back in. That was quite a lot of pressure to live under.
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