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

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.

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

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.

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.

It's funny how intimate it feels to get a text.

Turning the thermostat down is something that I do pretty reluctantly. I like to be able to walk around in whatever I fancy at home.