“I’ve been in the public eye for about 15 or 16 years and I’m very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It’s not just something that will always be there.”

I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.

I’m not one of these people that needs to feel loved. I don’t need to see my picture everywhere.

Drink whatever you like, just so long as it coordinates with your nail varnish.

Everyone’s showing their thong out the back of their jeans. But you shouldn’t wear any. You get a better line if you wear no knickers.

I don’t have any issues with my age.

I don’t want to be made to look like I’m 25. I’m 39. I don’t have any issues with my age.

For me to go to America – which I find such a positive place – well, I took to it like a duck to water.

I’ve got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.

People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.

I love what I do professionally, I’m really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.

More than anyone, I am aware of the preconceptions. I was a Spice Girl. I’m married to a footballer.

I love fashion – I really feel it’s where I belong.

I’m not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

I spent the whole summer with my boobs out, breastfeeding. I loved it. It was heaven.

The only time I get upset by things written about me – when people write irresponsible things about my weight… I appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.

People always think I’m taller than I am – not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It’s all relatively streamlined.

At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way [my father] could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.

Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn’t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.

When at a young age you learn to face your fears, that makes the difference between people being champions and people not being champions.

I really always wanted to be an adult. I didn’t really like being an adolescent at all.

I think that other girls and boys my age will maybe see that I’m so accepting and be accepting of other people, too.

The question isn’t at what age I want to retire, it’s at what income.

If you grow up in the suburbs, you hear of people dying of old age, car wrecks, cancer. In the city, it’s always people dying of violence or stray bullets.

I was raised by both parents up to 17. We had a good family. We had a middle class family, good teaching and good surroundings, raised by the church, where I went every week whether I wanted to or not.