Sharleen Spiteri: ‘I blew my drink at Paris Hilton. We ended up nose to nose’

After tens of millions of sales and with a UK tour this month, the Texas frontwoman answers readers' questions, from enmity with the reality star to friendship with Thierry Henry

What was your best memory or high point of your career so far with Texas? RainbowEden47

Having another hit album [2021's Hi], all these years in, feels poignant, because the beginning feels like yesterday. There's been amazing moments like Glastonbury or playing to 175,000 people in Valencia, but the funnier stuff makes for great stories as you get older. Once we were in Clint Eastwood's daughter's vintage Mercedes and a handle came off in my mate's hand, so she hid it in her handbag. When I was 15, if somebody had told me that I'd have Debbie Harry and John Taylor from Duran Duran in my kitchen, I'd have melted. Debbie actually lent me the Heart of Glass dress. I never wore it because I'd never look like fuckin' Debbie Harry in it. Well, I wore it secretly, in the house.