Quotes By Sophie Ellis Bextor
That's part of the reason I called the album 'Shoot From The Hip.' I did feel it was time to open up more.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
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.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
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.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
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.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
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.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
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.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
A lot of what inspired many musicians is celebrating differences, and people relate to that - more people feel like the unpopular, freaky one than the one in the in-crowd.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
Not all my shoes are designer. In terms of clothes, everything is on the same level for me. If I like it, it doesn't matter if it cost £200 or £2. I'm attracted to things rather than labels.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
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.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
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.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
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.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
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.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
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.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
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.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
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.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
I've been DJing a little bit, so you get used to the fact that music sounds brilliant when it's loud.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
Having a successful first album is one thing, but a successful third is another.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
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.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
For every person that says I'm the new Audrey Hepburn, someone else says that I look like an alien.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating.
Sophie Ellis Bextor