Estelle Quotes
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Law became boring, but like every job I've done, it helped prepare me for a career in music.
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John Legend is a cool guy. He likes to chill, is easy to talk to and hang out with. He's also inspiring on a musical level.
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I would say my greatest musical influences have been Ella Fitzgerald and Mary J. Blige.
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My mum is West African, from Senegal; my dad is from Grenada. There was a huge controversy about them getting together.
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I remember being, like, the age of 7 and just always being in control of something or someone, a baby somewhere. I had lots of cousins and brothers, and we were all taught that's how you are, you know. Things don't just run themselves; you have to make them run.
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Walking round the Champs-Elysees late at night is the greatest time.
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I learned that working out gives me a space to get clear. It's not just about the body. It gives me space to process things and get clear in my mind about decisions and things I want to do.
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For four years, my mum allowed only church music in the house.
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I come from a family of well-endowed booty women.
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I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the plane. It had seven or eight songs in it. After that, I'm not writing any more songs on notebooks - and I keep my Blackberry close!
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I like to write about the things I care about. It's no fun to sing about things you don't like.
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I'm used to traveling. I'm used to being in different areas of the world. Home is where my suitcase lands.
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Why should you stay in one place and one country if they're not offering you a job? It doesn't make sense!
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I have my family; I'm never alone.
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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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I feel like I'm beautiful, and every woman should feel like that.
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I got to the point where I was fed up with so many people telling me how and who I was supposed to be.
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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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I wear what I feel and what makes me feel happy.
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I am a black British female artist, so I must be like Ms Dynamite, I must be like Shystie, I must be like Jamelia, but we're all different.
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I've still gotta come across as happy when inside I feel crap!
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I have to live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared to do that.
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Some days I might be wearing a little dress, and some days I might be wearing something with wings on it and be confusing.
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I think every artist strives for a record that crosses all energy, lines, boundaries or languages or barriers.