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

'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.

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.

I'm never getting too lonely because it's the kind of disease where you might sit in front of the TV with three bags of biscuits, rather than communicate with the world.

At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands of light and dark? Could they indeed have been distinct entities?

We would – or at least we should – take upon ourselves the ultimate task of our poet: to seek the face of God.

I've reached a happy stage in my life - you can call it "happy" - but I have no expectations anymore. I'm glad I'm not young anymore.

The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

I'm not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.

In the last resort, sheer insight is the greatest asset of all.

One product is always ultimately bought with another, even when paid for in the first instance with money.

My eldest brother Atticus just won an Oscar some years ago, as he wrote the music for The Social Network.

Our thought is the unseen magnet, ever attracting its correspondence in things seen and tangible.

I hate movies that take a long time to shoot or directors that labor over every shot or do excessive amounts of coverage and excessive takes and don't keep things moving or constantly cutting.