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.

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

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.

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.