For every person that says I'm the new Audrey Hepburn, someone else says that I look like an alien.

I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more.

You have to apply yourself because you'll never get a better opportunity than the one you have right now. Having said that, people know by now if they like me or not. I don't need to prove anything.

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.

The X Factor' is great entertainment, but it doesn't prepare people for getting chewed up and spat out by the music industry.

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.

I had my autograph down by the age of 13. I used to sign it everywhere.