Estelle Quotes
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I'm signed to a U.S. label, and I didn't enjoy the 3 A.M. phone calls. I'm not a great sleeper, so I didn't enjoy being woken up.
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Luke James has this mystique about him that's not something you can explain; you can only experience it. He's got a whole D'Angelo feel to him as well.
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The most personal track would have to be 'Love The Way We Used To.' It's one of the songs that I listen to outside of all the records that I wrote.
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I will never say I am committed to somebody unless I'm serious about that person.
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There is not enough faith in black music at a high level.
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I feel like it's not a bad average for every album I've got in the United States to be nominated for something off the album.
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People have created feuds between me and other artists.
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I've always dug Audrey Hepburn. I think she's one of the classic beauties.
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I would say my greatest musical influences have been Ella Fitzgerald and Mary J. Blige.
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I've always been a fan of Nigerian artist D'banj. He's now signed to Kanye West's Good Music label.
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Basically, if you go looking for trouble, it'll come find you.
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I'm the female Jay-Z. I never compared myself to other women artists. I compared myself with the best, and the best is Jay-Z.
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With the first album, I wanted to do so many different things, and I was fighting with myself to try and see if I was worthy enough to do it.
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With my music, I don't have to stay in one lane. One day I'm in Motown, and the next day I'm in reggae.
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I got into hip hop from my uncle; he was always playing us Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane. He was a bad boy, and my mum was not really happy that I was hanging out with him.
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I wear and have worn scarves my entire life while traveling, working out, and now sometimes while performing, and not just on my head - I wear them around my neck and on my bag.
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My style is Edie Sedgwick meets Grace Jones, or Audrey Hepburn meets Salt 'n' Pepa. Strong and feisty but still classic.
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The Grammy snuck up on me. I was on tour. It just hit me. I skipped down the street in Vienna. I kept saying, 'I won. I won.'
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In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.
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I grew up in a family of nine kids.
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I went to New York and Miami and hung out by the beach, and I love the American boys, so I wrote a song about it.
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We get older, and we forget that we have to carve a little time out to feel good in your body, in your head, and in your spirit.
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If there is enough space on radio for Busted and McFly, who are basically the same band, or for 50,000 versions of Stereophonics and Coldplay, there must be enough room for all of us.
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People like the shows I do. I want to be real, to have fun, even when I dance on stage... it's a buzz.