A lot of people have said that I've got a voice that speaks to children. I think I've got a natural naivety to me. I'm childish.

'Spice Girls' is about unifying the world - every age, every gender, everyone. It's woman power, it's an essence, a tribe.

The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.

I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.

Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense.

Step by step, the road is long, but at the end you can touch a star.

Being mean about other people isn't on my radar.

We hope for the future, then we reach for the past.

In school nativity plays I was always the bloody little donkey, I was never Mary.

It's important to learn to laugh at ourselves. Don't take life too seriously.

Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.

Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most.

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

If we don't know our own history, then we simply will have to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the same sacrifices, all of the same absurdities over again - times ten.

A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.

I am not enough to be only in the mountains, not enough to be on an expedition. I believe that if the walks uphill, then with some goal, and that goal is to climb to the top.

You may think there is a lot wrong with you, but there is also a lot right with you.

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

A book worth reading is worth buying.

If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.

It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars.