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

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

Sophie Ellis Bextor
Children, Parent, Only Child
Interview with Nick Duerden, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

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.

Sophie Ellis Bextor
Effort, Gears, Should

Come rain or shine I walk short distances rather than taking my car.

Sophie Ellis Bextor
Distance, Rain, Car
"The green room". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2007.

It's hard to feel comfortable in your own skin when you're younger.

Sophie Ellis Bextor
Skins, Feels, Comfortable In Your Own Skin

I don't want to sound like an old grandmother but actually it's quite nice when you get up early and then, by the time it gets to 10am, you're quite perky and already quite switched on.

Sophie Ellis Bextor
Nice, Grandmother, Up Early

My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood.

Sophie Ellis Bextor
Role Models, Childhood, Parent

Like my mum, I sometimes buy things I shouldn't and fill my house with rubbish.

Sophie Ellis Bextor
House, Rubbish, Sometimes

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.

Sophie Ellis Bextor
Parent, Asks, Affected

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.

Sophie Ellis Bextor
Lying, Thinking, People
"Question time: Sophie Ellis-Bextor". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2009.

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.

Sophie Ellis Bextor
Book, School, Boys

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

Sophie Ellis Bextor
Trying, Shapes, Stuff

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