Three mature palm trees. We restored a property in Italy that had been derelict and I needed to make it look established as quickly as I could.

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.

A fast Golf car. I got rid of it after about six months because it kept depreciating in value.

An office in the garden.

I am not studious enough. I get easily distracted.

We were doing a tour in Japan and as our plane landed, it rose again, out of the blue. About 10 years later there was this programme about 10 of the nearest misses, and it was my flight. There was another plane on the runway and we nearly landed on top of it. I didn’t know until 10 years later.

When my new-born daughter Cleopatra died and I wasn’t there. I was doing a US tour and I remember sitting down in an airport and losing it.

When I realised that I could be a musician. I was 16.

I would have spent more time practising and got a proper lawyer to sort out my first album contract.