I feel more confident if my makeup looks good.
ELLIE GOULDINGIt took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.
More Ellie Goulding Quotes
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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 feel quite proud to be an ambassador for women who realize that being fit is better than being skinny.
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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 would never create an image for myself; I’m not that clever.
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I tend to write things and review it afterwards and realise what comes out. I very rarely ever write something and have to take it back.
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I like being by the ocean.
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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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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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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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I like the idea about somewhere there being a world… somewhere there’s a world that I don’t know about. But also, that somewhere, there was once something that disappeared.
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The very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.
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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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I’ve just become quite fixated on the idea of calmness and peacefulness somewhere, someday.
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I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.
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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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You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It’s really important to start writing young.
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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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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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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 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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My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat ’cause they’re calling me.
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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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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 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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I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I’d be so happy.
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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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