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.
ELLIE GOULDINGI would never create an image for myself; I’m not that clever.
More Ellie Goulding Quotes
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I used to be obsessed with Pearl Jam, but I love having pink hair and kind of looking like a Barbie.
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I would never create an image for myself; I’m not that clever.
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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 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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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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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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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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I feel more confident if my makeup looks good.
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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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I take inspiration from everything around me, also relationships and friends. And the inside of my crazy head.
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You get to a certain age and you can’t judge yourself on your dad or your parents.
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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 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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You 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.
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It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.
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I still don’t know if I can write songs. I don’t think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.
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I love designer stuff but like it will only be like, on a whim. I love Alexander Wang so much, but it’s expensive.
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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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Apparently I’m introspective, levelheaded, but at the same time, absolutely insane.
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I feel quite proud to be an ambassador for women who realize that being fit is better than being skinny.
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The very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.
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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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The nature of how we are as human beings is that we’re much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.
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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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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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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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