Sometimes I really wish that I could sit back and enjoy it, live in the moment more. But I am terrified, and I want to better myself, not that I want to prove anything to anyone other than myself. I am ambitious, and there are many things I want to do. It doesn't get any easier.
— Victoria Beckham
Strong women, that's who I really respect.
I was never a natural. I got there in the end because I did believe that if you work hard enough, then you can achieve a lot.
There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
I like to think of my customer and make sure that season after season she is getting what she wants. Ultimately, I suppose I have an image of myself. That is the person I am designing for - a woman who loves and appreciates fashion and luxury, and somebody who wants to feel empowered with the best version of themselves.
I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
First and foremost, I feel very lucky to have the family I have, so I would like my family to stay happy and healthy.
I'm very lucky to have a job that I love.
I'm a very, very healthy eater. I eat lots of fish, lots of vegetables, lots of fruit. I don't eat junk food.
My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
I'm not one of these people that needs to feel loved. I don't need to see my picture everywhere.
You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.
I love fashion, and that's how I express myself.
For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.
I actually used to smile a lot in pictures. I think I only stopped smiling when I got into fashion. Fashion stole my smile!
I think as I have got older, I have got a bit more relaxed, although you might not think that if you heard me screaming at my kids.
I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
After dinner I'll catch up with emails. And when I'm lying in bed, I think about the next collection. That makes me sound insane, doesn't it? That I'm getting into bed with David Beckham and thinking about clothes?
It's great when women support women. We need more women out there supporting women.
I want to evolve each season. I never want to be one of those brands where people know what they're going to see. I always want an element of surprise. One thing I never want to do is copy what anybody else is doing. I have a signature, and it's very important to me to stay true to that.
When you're in a position to be paparazzi-ed just walking down the street, you'd look a little daft if you were smiling all the time.
I don't have any issues with my age.
I love fashion - I really feel it's where I belong.
I love America. It's such a positive country.
If you have a surreal life like I do, you've got to have fun along the way.
I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.
You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.
I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
When I dress in a certain way and do my hair and makeup in a certain way, it's not to get attention.
My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.
I believe in creative visualization.
When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me.
I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.
I'm lucky that I do something I love, and I am proud, as I think it's a positive message to give to young women: if you want to have a career and be married with children, then you can. It's full-on, but it's doable.
I find that even the simplest of dresses, if it has the correct seaming and the correct fabric, whatever shape or size you are, it can change the way you hold yourself.
People are mean on social media, whoever you are. It's a shame people have to be that way.
When people ask if I have any advice for young designers, the best advice I could ever give to somebody is to work for someone else, when you are playing with someone else's money. It is very expensive when you start doing it on your own.
I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.
I appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.
I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.
I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
I'm living in Beverly Hills. I'm very, very lucky. I wake up every morning and I recognize that I'm blessed.
I'm not a supermodel. I make the best of what I've got.
I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
