There was a reason they called me 'the female boss' in N-Dubz - I did all the talking.

I don't really have a strategy other than to just be myself.

In the past, I may have felt quite trapped - rebelled a little bit and been quite defensive and not known how to relax.

There have been moments in the past where I haven't made it easy for myself.

There's no blueprint; getting married doesn't make you boring, having kids doesn't make you boring, having money doesn't necessarily have to make you boring.

All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making interest payments on a debt tally that never seems to budge. Whatever wealth we have, in labor, property or cash, is suctioned to the top.

All sectors of the national economy should make scrupulous arrangements for economic planning and guidance to boost production by tapping every possible reserve and potentiality, and work out in a scientific way the immediate plans and long-term strategies for stage-by-stage development and push ahead with them in a persistent manner.

The fact is, I made $400 a week and only for 26 weeks a year. I never had any money.