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What people don’t understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.

Ellie Goulding

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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Famous Fans Myself Person Stardom Thinking
Even when I’m in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.
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Happiness Mindset Myself People Quite Sad Song State
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.
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Age Complete Myself Run Start Time
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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Dreams Fantasy Music Myself Surreal Writing
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.
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Children Curiosity Encouragement Mom Myself Person Raise
It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.
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Artist Live Music Myself Performance Reputation Time
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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Body Friendship Work 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.
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Age Herself Home Mom Sing Voice Weird Young
The smallest changes, like I stopped eating meat and I’ve been doing different kinds of exercise like Yoga and stuff like that, little changes have made me feel a bit more at peace I think.
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Challenge Different Eat Exercise Kind Myself Peace Small
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.
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Myself Need Teaching Thinking Value
You get to a certain age and you can’t judge yourself on your dad or your parents.
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Age Father Judgement Parents Yourself
I still love the skinny jeans thing and I wear my favorite leather jacket constantly. I like being kind of a rock star. I love that I can feel comfortable in a small dress or I can feel comfortable wearing a baggy T-shirt.
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Appearance Comfortable Kind Love Myself
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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Damage Emotion Feeling People Point Reach Return Yourself
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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Goodness Job Myself Quite Sing Writing
I feel like my songs are very relevant and very meaningful, but I literally have to get rid of the nostalgia for shows because I would just be mess on-stage otherwise.
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Feeling Meaning Myself Nostalgia Song
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.
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Challenge Criticism Music Weakness Yourself

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