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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.

Ellie Goulding

The nature of how we are as human beings is that we’re much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.
ELLIE GOULDING

Criticism Human Interest Nature Praise
I feel quite proud to be an ambassador for women who realize that being fit is better than being skinny.
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Ambassador Appearance Better Quite Skin Yourself
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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Home Hospital Myself Shock Sick Work
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 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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Book Children Myself Present Quite Time
One of the most powerful feelings in the world is after a really, really long run.
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Feeling Oneself Powerful Run World
My favourite people to follow on Twitter are… my fans. They make me laugh so much and keep me smiling.
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Fans Laughter Myself People Smile
I’m a bit of a like girly-girl, really, I like flowery stuff.
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Flower Myself Woman
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
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 GOULDING

Home Love Myself Portrait Print Reminder
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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Best Friendship Myself Thinking Time Togetherness Weird
I think hype is a good thing. You need it and it’ll teach you valuable things and you’ll grow stronger, which is what I’ve done.
ELLIE GOULDING

Myself Need Teaching Thinking Value
You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It’s really important to start writing young.
ELLIE GOULDING

Evolution Important Progress Start Writing Yourself
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
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
My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat ’cause they’re calling me.
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Call Darkness Hard Myself Soul
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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Believe Kind Lost Myself Sea Thinking World
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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Myself Rare Realization Writing
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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Challenge Criticism Music Weakness Yourself
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 used to be obsessed with Pearl Jam, but I love having pink hair and kind of looking like a Barbie.
ELLIE GOULDING

Appearance Love Myself Obsession
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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Funny Genuine Home Myself Warm
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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Famous Fans Myself Person Stardom Thinking
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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Damage Emotion Feeling People Point Reach Return Yourself
I would never create an image for myself; I’m not that clever.
ELLIE GOULDING

Creation Image Myself
The only really safe thing to do is to write a diary of where you’ve been, what time you went to bed, what you ate. If I wrote honestly about everything I think it’d be a disaster. It would cause a lot of trouble.
ELLIE GOULDING

Diary Honesty Safety Thinking Trouble Writing Yourself
I can fall in love in a simple way, but I can dissect it in such an intense fashion when it ends.
ELLIE GOULDING

End Fall In Love Fashion Myself Simplicity

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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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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