Quotes By Sophie Ellis Bextor

I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more.

I don't know why people think I'm polished - I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights.

Some people can get away with being very sexy to men and not looking like a complete cow, but I didn't think I was in a position where people knew me well enough.

I've been DJing a little bit, so you get used to the fact that music sounds brilliant when it's loud.

Having a successful first album is one thing, but a successful third is another.

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.

I think there's quite a lot of cowardice in music. I don't mind if it goes wrong, I just want to go for it.

For every person that says I'm the new Audrey Hepburn, someone else says that I look like an alien.

I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.

I must confess I knew very little about the trance scene, I'm more house and commercial dance but it was really interesting and different.

Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward.

There are a lot of people out there who lie about their age and I think it does us all a disservice. It can't all be over when you hit 30. That would be rubbish.

I've got a thing for footwear; I have about 200 pairs of shoes from all over the world.

Everybody remembers Robbie Williams said I had a face like a satellite dish.

My rule for the corporate stuff is the same as with my music - I do whatever means I can sleep at night and whatever means I can be dignified.

Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the ages of eight and ten I collected avidly. I'd pore over my Stanley Gibbons book, obsessively checking my collection's value. I always hoped I'd stumble across a really valuable one, a Penny Black or an Inverted Jenny, but it wasn't to be.

I'd never really thought about it before, but now you ask I can see that how my parents handled money definitely affected my relationship with it.

On my wedding day. I didn't want a natural, blushing-bride look - I had a full-on hairdo and red lips. I thought it would be disingenuous to do the whole virginal look, so even though I had the white dress, I had pink net underneath.

I wrote the worst novel ever.

Like my mum, I sometimes buy things I shouldn't and fill my house with rubbish.

I'm a little bit allergic to the whole brand thing to be honest but maybe it's just happening around me and I'm not really aware of it.

Two premature babies was not a genetic thing; we were just unlucky.

But I quite like that the public has a very short attention span. If I haven't been on telly for a little bit, I can sense it. People don't take as much notice of you, it's really quite palpable.

I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next.

That's part of the reason I called the album 'Shoot From The Hip.' I did feel it was time to open up more.

But I don't like working on lyrics publicly in the studio - I prefer to take them away and work on them in my bedroom.

Now when I say Sophie Ellis-Bextor I feel that's not really me because that's become this entity from doing the gigs and the shows and the make-up contracts and whatever else.

Also, I think women really come into their own in their 30s.

There's so many singers, you watch them and a lot of it is waving around. You don't get this feeling that they're really thinking about what they're saying.

I don't think anyone doubts my motives, really. I do what I do and it's not very complicated. Of course, you might hate the music that I make, but I don't think people feel threatened by me just getting on with what I'm up to.