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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.

- Estelle

Love, Learn, Doing, Hating

My style is Edie Sedgwick meets Grace Jones, or Audrey Hepburn meets Salt 'n' Pepa. Strong and feisty but still classic.

- Estelle

Strong, Still, Meets, Feisty

I can't stand quitters. My mother is a very strong, determined woman. I was peeling onions when I was seven, but I walked off when my eyes began to sting. She said to me, 'You start something and you finish it', and that stuck with me. I'm persistent.

- Estelle

Strong, Woman, Very, Onions

Lesson one, introduce yourself to everyone when you walk into a room. Don't act like you're too bougie to say, 'Hello.'

- Estelle

Lesson, Everyone, Like, Introduce

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

- Estelle

Used, Traveling, Being, Suitcase

I always say, 'There's a difference between cooked food and McDonald's.' Your mom's homemade dinner - you enjoy this more than you enjoy the fast food that comes along and goes, and I strive to make homemade dinner every time I put out an album.

- Estelle

Mom, Enjoy, Your, McDonald

I grew up in a house full of music. Everything from reggae and afro-beat to Zook and pop.

- Estelle

Music, Pop, Up, Reggae

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.

- Estelle

Next, One Day, Motown, Reggae

Me being a black girl in London, whose mom is first-generation African and whose dad is West Indian, gives me a different view. I'm coming at soul from my own place.

- Estelle

London, My Own, Dad, Different View

I always have to get my U.K. fix, and 'Downton Abbey' is definitely that. I absolutely love period dramas, but this one is particularly appealing - following the ins and outs of aristocracy as well as the interaction between the rich and the poor.

- Estelle

Love, Downton Abbey, Abbey, Dramas

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.

- Estelle

Artist, Like, Ms, Dynamite

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.

- Estelle

Space, Enough, Room, Busted

Parents, raise your kids. Young men and women, raise your kids.

- Estelle

Men, Young, Raise, Young Men

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.

- Estelle

Big, Bad, Mum, Kool

I would say my greatest musical influences have been Ella Fitzgerald and Mary J. Blige.

- Estelle

Been, Mary, Ella Fitzgerald, Ella

The reality show 'America's Next Top Model' is my girlie pleasure.

- Estelle

Top, Pleasure, Next, Reality Show

My songs are always about overcoming things, whether it's breaking up with a guy or just trying to be happy. They're always about being better.

- Estelle

Happy, Always, About, Overcoming

When I was growing up, hip-hop was still a pretty specialised thing.

- Estelle

Growing, Pretty, Still, Specialised

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!

- Estelle

Brazil, Seven, Plane, Notebooks

Kanye West is my older brother, an inspiring guy and someone who keeps pushing my level up further and further.

- Estelle

Guy, Level, Older Brother, None

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.

- Estelle

Always, Over, Telling, Girlfriends

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.'

- Estelle

Play, Turn, I Think, Wow

I've fully embraced who I am. I stopped fighting with people and just come to realize, 'This is me. This is all of me.'

- Estelle

Fighting, Come, Stopped, Fully

No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.

- Estelle

Happiness, Goes, Straight, Breakup

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

- Estelle

Love, Music, I Love, Versus

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.

- Estelle

So Many Different Things, Different Things

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

- Estelle

Question, Never, Ask, Scared

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.

- Estelle

Artist, Part, Times, Scared

Conservatives, they're like the Republicans to me. They don't do much. They have this whole hierarchy and boys' club thing going on. That doesn't help the regular person.

- Estelle

Like, Going, Republicans, Regular

I think the one group I am trying to appeal to is the world. That would be big enough.

- Estelle

Think, Big, I Think, Group

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