I guess I started running when I was about 18 and… I feel like it assists my creativity a bit because it completely just flushes everything out.
ELLIE GOULDINGMy 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.
More Ellie Goulding Quotes
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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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Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.
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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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Apparently I’m introspective, levelheaded, but at the same time, absolutely insane.
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The very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.
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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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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 feel more confident if my makeup looks good.
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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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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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My fans are so funny, they make me laugh so much. I’ve got some really, really, funny, clever fans.
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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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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 like being by the ocean.
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I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.
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