Estelle Quotes
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A lot of big whoever producers, they come with a song and they say, 'Sing this,' and I'm not that girl.
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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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I just have a way about me where people know that they don't tell me what to do, they kind of just wait for me to do it.
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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 come from a family of well-endowed booty women.
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I have my family; I'm never alone.
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When I need things to happen, I need them to happen now, you know. I don't want to be having a meeting about a meeting about a meeting, which is what can happen in Britain.
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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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The Americans love me because I'm so completely unwilling to change my whole Britishness.
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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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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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When my career slowed, I knew deep down it wasn't over.
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For four years, my mum allowed only church music in the house.
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I'm so sick of hearing that U.K. hip hop doesn't get credit and success when I'm working to get it - for me and for others, too.
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If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it!
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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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People like the shows I do. I want to be real, to have fun, even when I dance on stage... it's a buzz.
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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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I'm so, so full of joy that America elected Obama. He didn't win because he was black - people voted for him because he had a plan and because he talked sense and because you believed him.
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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 can get a call at 2 A.M., and the person on the other end is like: 'Sorry, did I wake you?' and I'm like: 'No, I'm wide awake.'
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I feel like I'm beautiful, and every woman should feel like that.
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No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.