Even when I’m in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.
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 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’m a bit of a like girly-girl, really, I like flowery stuff.
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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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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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Something funny always happens in every show in the UK and I genuinely love touring the UK because it’s where I’m from. I just get a warm feeling when I’m home.
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I’m never happy with my face, my hair, I haven’t really got any boobs and I’m not really that tall.
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When you reach a point of no return with someone and you feel there’s going to be no reconciliation, you have to disconnect. I can’t allow myself to be emotionally connected with people like that again, it’s too damaging.
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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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I’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.
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Apparently I’m introspective, levelheaded, but at the same time, absolutely insane.
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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 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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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 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 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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