Quotes By 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I wrote the worst novel ever.

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.