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.
ELLIE GOULDINGI 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.
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.
ELLIE GOULDINGI’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 GOULDINGYou get to a certain age and you can’t judge yourself on your dad or your parents.
ELLIE GOULDINGI 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 GOULDINGI’ve just become quite fixated on the idea of calmness and peacefulness somewhere, someday.
ELLIE GOULDINGYou 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.
ELLIE GOULDINGIt took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.
ELLIE GOULDINGHow long will I love you? As long as stars are above you, And longer if I may.
ELLIE GOULDINGI love designer stuff but like it will only be like, on a whim. I love Alexander Wang so much, but it’s expensive.
ELLIE GOULDINGIt’s so important to take vitamins. People always get ill on tour because of the close proximity in the bus with everyone.
ELLIE GOULDINGOne of the most powerful feelings in the world is after a really, really long run.
ELLIE GOULDINGI still don’t know if I can write songs. I don’t think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.
ELLIE GOULDINGThe nature of how we are as human beings is that we’re much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.
ELLIE GOULDINGI wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.
ELLIE GOULDINGI 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.
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