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A career in entertainment has a lifespan, like one in sport.
Sophie Ellis Bextor
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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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For every person that says I'm the new Audrey Hepburn, someone else says that I look like an alien.
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I'm always sticking up for other people.
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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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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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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!
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My little boy Sonny makes me laugh all the time. He has good comedic timing.
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Some people are really good at packaging themselves, but that's not really me.
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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.
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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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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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That's part of the reason I called the album 'Shoot From The Hip.' I did feel it was time to open up more.
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I didn't feel so great when I was a teenager, but who does?
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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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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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Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward.
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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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When it comes to my family I never quite know how protective I have to be, or what I should or shouldn't say.
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Having a successful first album is one thing, but a successful third is another.
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Yeah, I'm not really a morning person.
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