Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Musician

1979-04-10

Quotes by Sophie Ellis-Bextor

• I love getting dressed up. Being a pop star is the most brilliant job for that. A lot of girls love shopping, but they might see the most amazing outfit and think, 'When am I going to wear that?', so it's my duty to exploit the fact I do have events I can wear these things to.

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• A good song is a good song whatever your age.

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• In terms of influence, my style icons have been a mixture of Julie Andrews and Olivia Newton-John. When I was little I used to watch 'Grease,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Sound of Music' a lot. If you put all those things together you do kind of get my outfits. A slightly tarty nanny in a second-hand outfit. That is pretty much what I wear.

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• In real life, I'm not super-posh but if that's the stereotype, I really don't care. It could be worse.

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• I'm a sucker for sad disco pop.

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• I never manage to get to bed early on Sunday night but this doesn't matter, as I don't know one level of exhaustion from another.

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• I don't want to sound like an old grandmother but actually it's quite nice when you get up early and then, by the time it gets to 10am, you're quite perky and already quite switched on.

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• I've got quite a curvy shape so I try to wear stuff that's tailored.

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• I tasted huge success with my first album, and when it's happening it feels like a roller coaster you can't get off. You should be very careful about wishing for success on that scale.

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• 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.

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• Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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