Official Melanie Chisholm Quotes
"The other girls are rubbish at gettin' up early. I'm
the ONLY one who can get up early."
"We treat everyone the same, whether you're the
prince or you're the postman, because ya know,
everyone eats and goes to the toilet, don't they?"
"I prefer singing songs."
"It never, ever sinks in."
"Me mum and step-dad are in a band, have always
been in a band, so it's always been quite a musical
household."
"America's brilliant because you can have
whatever you want, whenever you want, in
America. You can say, I dunno, I want the most
bizarre thing and you can get it like that 24 hours a
day."
I think America's my favorite out of all places,
AFTER England."
"It's not an image, it's just the way we are. Ya
know, naturally."
"Some people love us and some people hate us."
"When I was 14, I had a bit of an obsession. I
really liked Neneh Cherry, in fact, I thought I WAS
Neneh Cherry. Which is not a bad thing, ya know.
She's cool. She was at Top Of The Pops when she
was about 9 months pregnant, about ready to
drop, d'ya know what I mean? Anyway, I've got
straight "white-girl" hair ya see, and I wanted hair
like Neneh! So I forced me mum to let me have a
perm. So I had this corkscrew perm and it was
horrific. I was just trying to put it out all the time
and ya know what? Me hair's never been the same
since. So don't do it. Stay natural. If you're curly,
love it. If you're straight, love it."
"I love most things about being a SPICE GIRL. I
love being able to get up on stage and sing and
dance."
"A lot of people don't realize that we write our
own music and a lot of people don't BELIEVE that
we write our own material. But we DO write our
own material and people can think whatever they
want because we don't care. The basic thing is we
do, WE know we do, so, think what you want."
"We fight all the time, but don't all mates?"
"NOTHING goes on forever, come on. I mean the
way I'm feeling right now, I would LOVE for it to
go on forever. But you gotta be realistic, haven't
ya? D'ya know what I mean? I mean it could all
end tomorrow. But let me tell you something, if it
did, we'd all sit down, we'd be gutted obviously,
but we'd sit down and we'd pat each other on the
back and say 'Nice one girls. Look at what we've
done. Look at what we've achieved. But let's carry
on and go our separate ways or carry on or
whatever."
"Friendship never ends!"
"I'm not leaving the Spice Girls!"
"I think my favorite artist of all time is Stevie
Wonder! But I'm a big Madonna fan, as well, so it
varies."
"I'm really into the Brit Pop scene. Ya know like
Blur, Oasis, and Supergrass. I kinda like all the big
guitar bands. Good music. And The Beatles, I love
The Beatles. So there's a wide range between us."
"I have eaten catfood. . .But I'm a vegetarian now,
I swear to God!"
"'Wannabe' is a favourite of mine and when we
were writing it, we wrote it in about, no joke, we
wrote it in about 15 minutes cuz we were just 'avin
a laugh and messin' about but we came across it in
the track and said this is wicked!"
"I've always wanted to be a pop star so I'm really
glad to be a Spice Girl!"
"Ooh! I'd be Demi Moore cuz she's married to
Bruce Willis!"
"Girl bands rule!"
"I think I was averaging at about one pair of
traniers a week. Ridiculous!"
"Sit down and open me mail. That's what I do."
"In England, a lot of our fans dress like us, a lot of
'em dress especially as Emma. But in America, the
parents dress like us, too. It's really freaky!"
"There's no way I'm doing that with a big split up
me bum, right?!"
"You have got a responsibility to look after
yourself."
"Melanie (G)'s the worst on the phone. She lives
on the phone."
"We all like to gossip; we all love it. I reckon
Victoria's the biggest gossip."
"We're all really proud to be British."
