For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous.

'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.

Children are often like hostages under the care of authority, with spankings and groundings nudging them like guns pointed at their skulls, threatening to shoot if the wrong words are uttered.

If I start from a place of love, more times than not I will find what is "right, " but if I start from a position of "right" I will rarely find love.

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.

Who will guard the guards ? If we're the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous?

History records the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.

There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.

When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.

If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.

I love to entertain and make people laugh.