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.
ELLIE GOULDINGI’ve changed the way I look a bit but not intentionally. I’ve cut my hair. I’ve got a bit of pink in it and lately I’ve become a bit monochrome, wearing a lot of black and white.
More Ellie Goulding Quotes
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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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I tend to write things and review it afterwards and realise what comes out. I very rarely ever write something and have to take it back.
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I like being by the ocean.
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You get to a certain age and you can’t judge yourself on your dad or your parents.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I love pink – pink’s my favourite. I hardly ever – weirdly – wear it, but I love the colour pink.
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I like the idea about somewhere there being a world… somewhere there’s a world that I don’t know about. But also, that somewhere, there was once something that disappeared.
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I’d call what I do pop music, but it’s folky and electronic and it doesn’t really sound like much else.
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Even if a relationship doesn’t work out, you can always take something positive from something negative. You never know what’s around the corner.
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I think I’d like to be best friends with Björk, because I’d like to pick her brain a lot all the time and just have weird times together.
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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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I can fall in love in a simple way, but I can dissect it in such an intense fashion when it ends.
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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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I still don’t know if I can write songs. I don’t think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.
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I take inspiration from everything around me, also relationships and friends. And the inside of my crazy head.
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The very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.
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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.
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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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One of the most powerful feelings in the world is after a really, really long run.
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I would never create an image for myself; I’m not that clever.
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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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What people don’t understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.
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I feel more confident if my makeup looks good.
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