Holidays. In the Spice Girls, we found ourselves with quite a few quid, so it was lovely to hire a big house in the Caribbean and have friends and family over.

The most extravagant thing was a bottle of 1904 armagnac for $1,000. I spent $10,000 on a Martin guitar in the 90s. I also spent $100,000 on a Fairlight keyboard and I ended up giving it away. Oh well.

A pair of Saint Laurent trousers.

When I finished the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, I bought a replica of the car. It’s in my front garden, surrounded by a lovely wildflower meadow, and people stop to look at it.

When I was growing up I wanted to be a minister. I wanted to preach.

You must find a way to get in the way, you must find a way to get into trouble — good trouble, necessary trouble.

Participating in a transformative movement that advocated human dignity and changed America forever.

As a participant in the movement, as I was sitting in, I came to that point where I lost all sense of fear.

Barack Obama, because he believed he could be president of the United States, and he succeeded. He was kind, and he tried to set a high standard of leadership.

I wanted to know. I asked a lot of questions and she would say, "Read, read."…So she inspired me a great deal.