Quotes By Sophie Ellis Bextor

I wrote the worst novel ever.

I would love to record something with PJ Harvey or Alison Goldfrapp.

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.

I'm a sucker for good black skirts and pretty little shirts and kooky tops. I have to admit that shopping satisfies my craving for immediate gratification.

I'm someone who has always been quite clear about what I like. In the studio, I'm not a control freak but I know what I want.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating.

When I first started out, I got criticism for the way I looked. I think, now, it's a good thing because, why would you want to look like everyone else?