“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 appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.

Just as I love women, I love gay men. I always say it: inside me there is a gay man who wants to come out.

Red is a strong, happy, optimistic color, and I like having fun with it, you know? Like, when colors clash – I love that strangeness.

I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.

I don’t believe anyone who says they don’t care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.

I can’t concentrate in flats.

I’m not worried about what’s in fashion, what’s not in fashion, what are the colors of the season. I go with my gut instinct because every time I haven’t it’s been a mistake.

The tusk is a very tactile shape, looks great among the other charms and is a cool piece that I like.

I don’t follow fashion and I don’t follow trends, I just follow my instincts.

I’ve been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn’t got to just look good from the front, from the back, it’s got to look good at all angles.

I don’t know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.

I used to feel famous, but now I feel successful.

If you can get your head around your dream it means your dream isn’t big enough.

These people are amazing. It’s so emotional I was thinking about wearing waterproof mascara.

If you haven’t got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!

It is dog friendly nail polish, before we even go there because I know that is an issue. She’s a bulldog, she needs all the help she can get. We’ve tried to feminize her a little bit and make her feel sexy!

Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.

Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming – being compared to him and Mark Spitz.

The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.

There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, ‘Oh, you’re playing yourself.’ I guess it’s kind of a compliment.

He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.

It’s where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this.

You don’t have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.