The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.

I like to have a peek, see what the audience is doing during the opening act, because it gives you a clue and gives you a good feeling of where you are - the air can be different in different places.

I really don't see myself being apart from music. I like doing lots of different things. I've been involved in film for quite a long time and I just like doing film.

Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.

If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.

I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.

I suppose you do think about the time that's allotted to you more than when you were younger. The mortality thing obviously has a stronger pull for you. It's an imminent truth; it's not necessarily a bad thing. You realize - much earlier than my age now - that you won't be able to play for England's football team, just to take a really crass example. So you can't have that life again. Unless you believe in reincarnation or whatever. Reincarnation? That's a whole other question. I find people who talk about that sort of thing in interviews idiotic. And I don't want to go down with them.