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 GOULDINGYou get to a certain age and you can’t judge yourself on your dad or your parents.
More Ellie Goulding Quotes
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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’d just like to think that there’s some kind of underworld where whoever’s been lost at sea is there… I dunno, there probably isn’t, but I’d like to believe there is.
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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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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 designer stuff but like it will only be like, on a whim. I love Alexander Wang so much, but it’s expensive.
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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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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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My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat ’cause they’re calling me.
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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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It’s so important to take vitamins. People always get ill on tour because of the close proximity in the bus with everyone.
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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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I was quite a weird kid because I didn’t like getting presents. I don’t know why. I just went for books all the time.
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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 would never create an image for myself; I’m not that clever.
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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.
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