You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It’s really important to start writing young.
ELLIE GOULDINGI wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.
More Ellie Goulding Quotes
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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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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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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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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 can fall in love in a simple way, but I can dissect it in such an intense fashion when it ends.
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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.
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What people don’t understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.
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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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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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I’m a bit of a like girly-girl, really, I like flowery stuff.
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The very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.
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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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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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I love pink – pink’s my favourite. I hardly ever – weirdly – wear it, but I love the colour pink.
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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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