Top 90 Quotes & Sayings by Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English musician Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I learned to stand up for myself at school where I was never too popular.
You have to apply yourself because you'll never get a better opportunity than the one you have right now. Having said that, people know by now if they like me or not. I don't need to prove anything.
Everybody remembers Robbie Williams said I had a face like a satellite dish.
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 don't know why people think I'm polished - I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights.
Trust your instincts: they tend to see you right. By listening to them, at least you can sleep at night.
Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward.
Yeah, I'm not really a morning person.
The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating.
Two premature babies was not a genetic thing; we were just unlucky.
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.
Some people are really good at packaging themselves, but that's not really me.
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 don't think writing or co-writing my songs makes me a better singer, but I haven't really got an excuse not to do it as I've got too many opinions!
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.
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.
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.
I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.
I try my hardest not to read reviews.
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.
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.
In real life, I'm not super-posh but if that's the stereotype, I really don't care. It could be worse.
I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts.
I get really frustrated if people don't smile.
I try not to wear anything I have to fidget with - there's nothing worse than wearing something and pulling down the hem and re-adjusting the top. My pet hate is when girls wear those strapless dresses and spend the whole night yanking them up.
I'm really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to whatever your own personal style is rather than feeling dictated to by shops.
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.
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.
For every person that says I'm the new Audrey Hepburn, someone else says that I look like an alien.
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.
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.
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?
It's funny how intimate it feels to get a text.
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.
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.
I really love being in London at weekends - there's always so much to do.
I wrote the worst novel ever.
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 think I'm fairly good with money, but I've developed some strange tics - in shops I don't like to go to the counter unless I've got at least two things to buy. If I'm walking around with just one thing in my hand I'll put it back and wait a few weeks because that doesn't seem like a proper purchase.
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 sad disco pop.
My little boy Sonny makes me laugh all the time. He has good comedic timing.
Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.
I've got quite a curvy shape so I try to wear stuff that's tailored.
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.
I'm always sticking up for other people.
I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more.
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.
I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
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.
That's part of the reason I called the album 'Shoot From The Hip.' I did feel it was time to open up more.
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.
I've been DJing a little bit, so you get used to the fact that music sounds brilliant when it's loud.
Also, I think women really come into their own in their 30s.
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.
Being a chef would be too much hard work.
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.
I would love to record something with PJ Harvey or Alison Goldfrapp.
Having a successful first album is one thing, but a successful third is another.
Like my mum, I sometimes buy things I shouldn't and fill my house with rubbish.
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