Estelle Quotes
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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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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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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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The Americans love me because I'm so completely unwilling to change my whole Britishness.
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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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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 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 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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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 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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No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.
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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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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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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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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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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.