When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know.

Having a bad haircut can be quite traumatic!

I think having children is the most amazing thing.

I think it's certainly natural to try new things as you grow up and get older!

I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.

A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.

In S Club I played a role in a band, but now I can go off and be me - My horizon's wide open now. It's scary and it's daunting, but it's an absolute thrill. I feel brand new!

Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in.

I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.

I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.

There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!

When I look in the mirror, I know I’m looking at someone who isn’t sure she deserves to be loved at all.

non c’è peggiore infedeltà che essere fedeli a un morto

In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away.

Terrifying, that the loss of intimacy with one person results in the freezing over of the world, and the loss of oneself.

Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit.

The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.

I like to experiment a lot, I just like to make myself look different to everyone else. Shopping at all different places from vintage to high-street, and then I just put it together myself.

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

Fortune reigns in gifts of the world.