Estelle Quotations | Page 2

I'm never scared to ask a question or state the obvious, y'know.

I'm just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.

I'm used to traveling. I'm used to being in different areas of the world. Home is where my suitcase lands.

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.

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.

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.

I love singing, so I want to see how far I can take it. I love the challenge, and I won't be happy until I have a wall full of gold discs and seven huge world tours under my belt.

I love rom-coms. Any will do. Films such as 'How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days' or 'Funny Face' with Audrey Hepburn.

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.

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.

If you think about where I'm from, I'm not supposed to be singing in the first place. I'm not supposed to be alive right now.

Garage music came up when people weren't paying attention.

The thing that makes me feel powerful is when I make a decision about something and I make it happen.

Acting is very start and stop.

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!

When there is hope, there is life.

If I don't agree with something, I let people know, and it occasionally leads to tension. But I usually iron things out.

I'd really started hating music. I'd started hating all the songs, hating being in the industry, hating doing the shows. So I had to learn to love music again if I wanted to continue doing this.

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.

I can sit in my room and write a song that I think might be a hit. I can sort of make myself do that, and then I'll play it to a friend, and they'll say, 'Oh, that's nice.' But when something happens to me, and I sit down and write a song to get rid of my emotions, they'll turn around and say, 'Wow, that's great.'

You know, sometimes you fall in love and you get treated badly, sometimes you get treated well.

A lot of my girlfriends are always telling me they're really strong independent women, but they've got their boy on the side, and they only go over when he calls.

The man for me has to have his own life or be as busy as me.