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" I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six. "

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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" 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. "

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" I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts. "

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" 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. "

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" In terms of influence, my style icons have been a mixture of Julie Andrews and Olivia Newton-John. When I was little I used to watch 'Grease,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Sound of Music' a lot. If you put all those things together you do kind of get my outfits. A slightly tarty nanny in a second-hand outfit. That is pretty much what I wear. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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'm all for consumer rights. I get very aggravated if I don't get a good service. "

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" 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. "

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" I really love being in London at weekends - there's always so much to do. "

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" My little boy Sonny makes me laugh all the time. He has good comedic timing. "

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" I've got quite a curvy shape so I try to wear stuff that's tailored. "

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" Some people are really good at packaging themselves, but that's not really me. "

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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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" Also, I think women really come into their own in their 30s. "

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" 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? "

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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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" Yeah, I'm not really a morning person. "

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" The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating. "

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