Sophie Ellis-Bextor Quotes

The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home.

At a time when we are dealing with unpredictable suppliers of energy abroad and higher gas costs at home, the decision to increase domestic energy exploration is integral to a balanced, common sense energy policy.

It's not just about turning up or down the heat, it's about the other experiences that come with turning up or down the heat - what are we doing about energy, what are we doing about your health and safety.

Do I ever think Gossip will be really massive in America? No, I don't think it'll happen - and that's fine. It's kind of nice because I get to experience everything at once. I get to come home and it not be weird, like in Paris or something. It is nice to be completely anonymous.

Consider a clock thermostat, and set it so that you're not using energy when you don't need it, when you're out of your house.

I was writing a book about sustainable energy, and a friend asked me, 'Well, how much energy do you use at home?' And I was embarrassed. I didn't actually know.

It's not so much that I don't like traveling, it's just that I love being home. I love being able to spend time with my friends.

Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.

I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But because I'm such a homebody, it's important to be surrounded by things I love.

As the temperature drops, the need for heating oil goes up.

Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses.

And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings.

I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be at home with my family.

I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.

People have got to get used to making low carbon choices. If they have a direct incentive to do so they will think about it. Many times a day you have a choice between a low carbon option and a high carbon option, whether it is at home or at work.

I like to be comfortable, and don't like to be cold, and I don't like to wear anything I'm not in the mood for.

After a really hectic week, I hate going out on a Friday evening, so I'll always opt for a night at home.

While I was designing my home, I was living in different houses all around the world, and I saw thermostats that were just as bad as the ones in the U.S., or houses that needed them but didn't have them. I realised that this was a worldwide problem. I thought, 'Let's fix it.'

We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'.

I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer.

It's not a joke: I really do like being at home.

Conservation of energy also protects our environment.

Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us.

I am not a fashionista, and I don't dress up. Usually if I'm at home, where I am now, I'm wearing a robe.

If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home and change.