Geri halliwell

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'm always coming up against scepticism in my life.

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.

Everyone has a mad half-hour once a month.

I do get scared, but I think - like it says in another book I've read - feel the fear and do it anyway. I try to have courage, pray a little bit and work through it. I'd rather try, even if I fail.

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

I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.

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.

Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it takes all the playfulness away.

I have days of self-doubt, but I think the kindest thing I can do to myself is accept where my body is at.