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

Sophie Ellis Bextor

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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.
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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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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'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.
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You should make an effort on stage because it's a performance. The stage should be glittery and camp, but I don't go down the shops in full stage gear.
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My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood.
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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'm happy that I have a look, but I don't over-analyse whether or not it's beautiful or ugly.
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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.
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Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics.
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I would love to record something with PJ Harvey or Alison Goldfrapp.
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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.
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I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is steadier and avoids splurges. I like to think I've inherited both sides.
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I'm a sucker for sad disco pop.
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I learned to stand up for myself at school where I was never too popular.
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I didn't feel so great when I was a teenager, but who does?
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Being a chef would be too much hard work.
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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.
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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.
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For every person that says I'm the new Audrey Hepburn, someone else says that I look like an alien.
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