The past year [2004] has been the best ever. I feel like I've got a fairy godmother watching over me.

The public has become my fairy godmother.

Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself?

...No, you're confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks.

I'm here!" I said..."I'm read to go home!" As if they couldn't see me. As if I couldn't remember what it had been like, fluttering next to someone's ear and whispering into it. How the whole earth was like a musical instrument that we could play effortlessly.
...I could not fly. My sister was not there. My heart was broken.

We would love to have the same success as the Spice Girls. They really made it. They paved the way for girl groups and we'd love to think this is our time now.

[She has a breezy self-confidence that comes from knowing her career is not dependent on fitting into a sample size. On the subject of Girls Aloud (who, she says,] were good role models before they got really skinny ... I'm like, love, you and me, singing competition, all right? That'd be brilliant. Geordie cow.