Trust your instincts: they tend to see you right. By listening to them, at least you can sleep at night.
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.
Also, I think women really come into their own in their 30s.
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.
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.
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.
Everybody remembers Robbie Williams said I had a face like a satellite dish.
For every person that says I’m the new Audrey Hepburn, someone else says that I look like an alien.
Having a successful first album is one thing, but a successful third is another.
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 learned to stand up for myself at school where I was never too popular.
I don’t know why people think I’m polished – I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights.
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’m all for consumer rights. I get very aggravated if I don’t get a good service.