Sophie Ellis-Bextor
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And everything else just completely fell away.
And I never had a plan B since then.
And I think it's quite funny.
I went into the box where I had to, as soon as I knew I was going to speak to you about items, I thought, oh, I'd like to bring one of the bit of merch from my band.
I think it's quite apt that it's this one because the song title, we had a lot of very long song titles.
So this song was called If You Can't Do It When You're Young, When Can You Do It?
That was the full title.
But obviously it was a rhetorical question.
And the answer is when you're older.
But I think at the time I felt like, oh, maybe it is about being young because so much of pop music and music in general, but certainly Britpop movement was all about youth culture and where it was focused.
But actually there's a whole life to be lived beyond that.
And so it's been a delight that I do know the answer now.
And it is, yeah.
When you're not young anymore, you can be when you're old.
You can do it.
That's when you can do it.
Life is not over.
No, there's way more adventures waiting for you.
And it's so fun when you know yourself as well.
Yeah.