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.

There's so many singers, you watch them and a lot of it is waving around. You don't get this feeling that they're really thinking about what they're saying.

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

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

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

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

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