Zitat des Tages von Estelle:
No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.
I have my family; I'm never alone.
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.
I think every artist strives for a record that crosses all energy, lines, boundaries or languages or barriers.
BMG has been an awesome partner throughout my career, and with New London, we plan to continue bridging the gap between soul, pop, London, and New York - uniting them through music.
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.
I feel like I'm beautiful, and every woman should feel like that.
I'm not slimming down for anyone and losing my figure.
I've always dug Audrey Hepburn. I think she's one of the classic beauties.
Labrinth is a super talented singer, producer, songwriter from London.
You have to have courage to look back and be honest about your own drama.
For four years, my mum allowed only church music in the house.
Reality really isn't as dull as it's cracked up to be.
Garage music came up when people weren't paying attention.
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.
I've still gotta come across as happy when inside I feel crap!
The most personal track would have to be 'Love The Way We Used To.' It's one of the songs that I listen to outside of all the records that I wrote.
I will test a guy to within an inch of his sanity because I've been through too much drama. He has to be 100%.
I want a TV series, I'm gonna do some acting jobs, I'm gonna do some Broadway jobs, everything!
I like to write about the things I care about. It's no fun to sing about things you don't like.
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 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.
I grew up in a house full of music. Everything from reggae and afro-beat to Zook and pop.
I hate that if you do one style of music or become really well known for that one song, that everything that comes after has to fit that mold.
Adele ain't soul.
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.'
Nobody's going to tell me to rap in an American accent.
I wear what I feel and what makes me feel happy.
Lesson one, introduce yourself to everyone when you walk into a room. Don't act like you're too bougie to say, 'Hello.'
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.
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.'
This fame is a juggernaut: It slaps you in the face, and you don't know what you're doing. You don't know who has your back, who is your support system.
When my career slowed, I knew deep down it wasn't over.
Luke James has this mystique about him that's not something you can explain; you can only experience it. He's got a whole D'Angelo feel to him as well.
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.
I always thought that if record companies didn't understand me, fine - I'd go and do it by myself.
