"I hate organization in life. I want chaos and spur-of-the-moment action. I'm impulsive and strong willed and I've got a foul mouth, which are all the qualifications you need to be in Spice Girls. I love what I do now, because there's something different happening every day. I had a job for two months doing telesales for a newspaper where I grew up in Leeds and it did my head in. There was no way i could live that nine-to-five lifestyle, so I was definitely cut out to be an entertainer."

"My mum's probably glad to have me off her hands, because I just had too much energy as a kid, I was a nutter. She had to pack me off to my aunt's every weekend because i was too much for her. That's why she sent me to dancing classes when i was eight too."

"I've had a weird and wild life before Spice Girls. I won a beauty competition, Miss Leeds Weekly News, when I was seventeen. My mum entered me without me knowing and when they asked me to be in the finals I wouldn't let my mum or dad come and watch. I only went and won it though, didnt I! I got a car for a year, even though I couldn't drive, and a trip to Disneyland. I took my boyfriend with me, and he eventually sold his story of our lovelife to the papers, the swine."

"I had a job in Panto at the Lewisham Odron in London for a while and got sacked because I kept giggling. It was a cheap production and there was only one mic to go around. One of the actors had the mic stuck in the middle of his forehead and so I had to say my lines to his head. I kept giggling. I couldnt help it. It was no good. My agent said I'd never work again because I'd been sacked, but I proved him wrong."

"I think it's fate that the five of us have been given the chance to be successful, because we're nothing like normal pop stars. The pop star life is all about stereotypes and fitting into a bracket and we dont want to do that. We don't want to work with the producer that everyone else is working with and we dont want to wear what everybody else is wearing. I really belive we should all do whatever the hell we like in this band. Not that I'm the driving force behind Spice Girls. Everyone brings a really strong quality to the group, whether it's in a very upfront way or something that's within them. It's just that I'm dead outspoken. Most people think before they speak. Not me. I just come out with whatever's going on in my brain. Sometimes I think, 'God, that sounds really horrible' and I'll wish I hadn't said it , but that's the way I am. If i dont like you, I'll tell you."

"If I do like you, thought, you're alright. My biggest achievement so far has been doing something for my family for once. My dadwas made redundant recently, so I paid off their mortgage for them. It was just my way of saying 'sorry about being a brat when I was younger'. Money doesn't matter to me. I've always spent whatever I've earned. Wehn i go into a shop I'll always buy something for whoever's with me... let then enjoy some of what I've got too. My house actually burned down not too long ago, but I didn't guve a toss about my possessions. I was just freaked out because I could have been killed."

"I started going to a healer after that to try and make myself feel a bit better; I'm really into spirituality now. You get a lot of good karma out of it, your whole soul feels cleansed. I've got a spirit guide now. She's kind of a guardian angel who keeps you in check, leads you to experiences that will take you to the next stage of life."

"It stops me worrying about anything now. I've got so many skeletons in my closet that if I sat fretting about them I couldnt get on with being a Spice Girl. I'm at peace with the way I am and I want to experience as much as possible. If I dont have a mad time and live the life then how the hell will know if I like it or not?"

"What shows I've got Girl Power? The fact is that I'm really carefree on the outside. I once went out on a date with someone who was painfully shy and by the end of the night we were sitting around chatting away completely naked! I can make people forget themselves and just chill out without even realising it. And that's very cool."