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I used to be obsessed with Pearl Jam, but I love having pink hair and kind of looking like a Barbie.

Ellie Goulding

Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.
ELLIE GOULDING

Deep Listening Man Music Myself Quite Relationship
I just sing and write songs and wear what I want. It’s quite a good job really. If I wanted to I suppose I could become more of a fashion icon, but singing is my thing.
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Goodness Job Myself Quite Sing Writing
I guess I’m just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.
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Attention Behavior Fascination Feeling Human Observation Pay Quite
I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.
ELLIE GOULDING

Age Herself Home Mom Sing Voice Weird Young
I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy – a crow and a rabbit – to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.
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Home Love Myself Portrait Print Reminder
Apparently I’m introspective, levelheaded, but at the same time, absolutely insane.
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Character Level Myself Sanity Time
One of the most powerful feelings in the world is after a really, really long run.
ELLIE GOULDING

Feeling Oneself Powerful Run World
Because I’ve always been a runner I love to feel that my body is shining on the inside. I wear baggy clothes, so it’s not as though I like showing it off. I just like to know I’m great on the inside.
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Feeling Greatness Love Myself
Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer’s patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.
ELLIE GOULDING

Home Hospital Myself Shock Sick Work
I’ve just become quite fixated on the idea of calmness and peacefulness somewhere, someday.
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Calm Fix Ideas Myself Peace Quite
I’ve never wanted to be a star, I never wanted to be a famous person or anything like that, and I think my fans know that as well.
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Famous Fans Myself Person Stardom Thinking
You get to a certain age and you can’t judge yourself on your dad or your parents.
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Age Father Judgement Parents Yourself
I feel like my songs are very relevant and very meaningful, but I literally have to get rid of the nostalgia for shows because I would just be mess on-stage otherwise.
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Feeling Meaning Myself Nostalgia Song
I feel more confident if my makeup looks good.
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Appearance Confident Feeling Goodness Myself
I believe that when you have fans, they invest in you not just as a singer but as a person as well. It’s not enough to just have good songs and a good voice.
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Believe Fans Goodness Investment Myself Voice
It’s so important to take vitamins. People always get ill on tour because of the close proximity in the bus with everyone.
ELLIE GOULDING

Important People Sick Victim Vitamin
Now, if some panic hits me, you have to sort of be friends with your body, it’s like your body will work against you.
ELLIE GOULDING

Body Friendship Work Yourself
I feel like my figure is a challenge because I’m quite flat chested but I’ve got a booty so I’ve got to look for the right things.
ELLIE GOULDING

Appearance Challenge Feeling Myself Quite Right
By the time I got writing ‘Halcyon,’ I was on a roll, and I realized I had so much to write about, I realized I had so much built up inside that I couldn’t really alleviate before, and then all of a sudden it was like reservoir burst.
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Build Myself Realization Time
I definitely write about a lot of dreamy, surreal stuff. I do end up going to a surreal world with my music, but I also like the idea of there being really real stuff as well.
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Dreams Fantasy Music Myself Surreal Writing
You can be the happiest you can be in a relationship but can have an urge to be with someone else. I know a lot of people that it has happened to.
ELLIE GOULDING

Feeling Happiness Relationship Yourself
I think, it is a challenge to get critics or whoever to see past what you wear and makeup and the way you look and just concentrate on the music.
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Challenge Criticism Music Weakness Yourself
You never know what to expect. You don’t just walk on and expect an amazing reaction.
ELLIE GOULDING

Amazing Expectation Flow Life Reaction Walk Yourself
My mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I’m glad I had the upbringing I did. It made me a worrier and a thoughtful, curious person.
ELLIE GOULDING

Children Curiosity Encouragement Mom Myself Person Raise
I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I trust it.
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Believe Fate Moments Myself Reason Trust Writing
Even when I’m in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.
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Happiness Mindset Myself People Quite Sad Song State
The nature of how we are as human beings is that we’re much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.
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Criticism Human Interest Nature Praise

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