I feel more confident if my makeup looks good.
ELLIE GOULDINGI 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.
More Ellie Goulding Quotes
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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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How long will I love you? As long as stars are above you, And longer if I may.
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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.
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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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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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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’d call what I do pop music, but it’s folky and electronic and it doesn’t really sound like much else.
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My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat ’cause they’re calling me.
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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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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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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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It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.
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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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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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I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I trust it.
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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 should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It’s really important to start writing young.
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I’m never happy with my face, my hair, I haven’t really got any boobs and I’m not really that tall.
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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 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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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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I believe that when you have fans, they invest in you not just as a singer but as a person as well. It’s not enough to just have good songs and a good voice.
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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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One of the most powerful feelings in the world is after a really, really long run.
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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.
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