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.

If in doubt, anything looks good with a white shirt.

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.

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

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 dress sexily - but not in an obvious way. Sexy in a virginal way

I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got.

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.

I'm still me even after all that's happened.

He (David Beckham) does have a huge one, though. He does. You can see it in the advert. It is all his. It is like a tractor exhaust pipe!

I read once that elegance is a privilege of age. I thought, that's so true. You get more comfortable with yourself as you get older.

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

I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.

And while everybody was busy laughing, what was I doing? I was laying the foundation to what I have in place now.

I am eating more. I think you do eat more when you're working out. And you want to eat healthily, so it's good all round.

I think the sexiest thing about a woman is confidence, but confidence in a humble way, not in an arrogant way.

I can live with my own mistakes. I can't live with anybody else's.

If I set my mind to something I do it. My biggest wish for all of us is that we are happy, successful, and that we stay true to ourselves.

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

I can't concentrate in flats.

The glass is always half full: I have no time for anything negative - and actually, I've bought crystals for all my team, so they all carry crystals as well.

I really am into crystals. I'm a real positive thinker. I believe in creative visualisation.

It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.

I do like to make things difficult for myself and my team, just from taking on a challenge, if you like.

I just can't do heels any more. At least not when I'm working. I travel a lot.

The Euro-bureaucrats are destroying every bit of national identity and individuality.

The whole European Federal plan is ridiculous. We are patriotic. The single currency is an outrage. We want the Queen's head - or the King's head, if we have a king - on our own coins.

Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.

The first dress that I wore in the Spice Girls, which everybody thought was a little black Gucci dress, was actually from Miss Selfridge - it wasn't a little black Gucci dress.

Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.

I have no time for women who don't support other women. It's the ultimate compliment when a woman tells you that you look good.

There are two types of women out there: there's the kind of woman who finds something nice and likes to keep it to herself, and then there's the other type, which is me, who wants to share.

Even if you're not being chased by paparazzi, there will be someone doing selfies, so everybody has to be camera-ready all the time. Whoever you are, everybody has to be ready now!

I find it odd that people will go to a nice restaurant or to the theater in jeans and T-shirts.

Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.

Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.

If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110%, or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.

For me, doing a show is great, but I want women to be able to wear the clothes easily as well.

I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.

Fashion nowadays is all about product - bags and shoes - and you're kind of a product yourself, aren't you?

Bottom line: I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

Everything that I design I would wear myself.

I love women's bodies. I love luxury.

I do the unpleasant tasks before I do the pleasant ones.

Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.

I try to do everything as soon as possible, and not at the last moment. This ensures that, when I am overburdened with work, I will not face the added pressure of knowing that something is still to be done.

For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.

When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer... his unique opportunity lies in the way he bears his burden.

The last freedom is choosing your attitude.

Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.