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Ellie Goulding

My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat ’cause they’re calling me.
ELLIE GOULDING

Call Darkness Hard Myself Soul
I like being by the ocean.
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Myself Nature Ocean
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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Attention Behavior Fascination Feeling Human Observation Pay Quite
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
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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Myself Song Thinking Writing
I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.
ELLIE GOULDING

Inspirational Myself Poetry Story Writing
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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Funny Genuine Home Myself Warm
I feel like my figure is a challenge because I’m quite flat chested but I’ve got a booty so I’ve got to look for the right things.
ELLIE GOULDING

Appearance Challenge Feeling Myself Quite Right
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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Black Change Intention Myself White
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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Appearance Face Hairs Happiness Myself
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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Criticism Human Interest Nature Praise
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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Home Love Myself Portrait Print Reminder
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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Best Friendship Myself Thinking Time Togetherness Weird
I’d call what I do pop music, but it’s folky and electronic and it doesn’t really sound like much else.
ELLIE GOULDING

Call Music Myself Sound
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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Myself Rare Realization Writing
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.
ELLIE GOULDING

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
My fans are so funny, they make me laugh so much. I’ve got some really, really, funny, clever fans.
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Fans Funny Laughter Myself
Even when I’m in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.
ELLIE GOULDING

Happiness Mindset Myself People Quite Sad Song State
I feel more confident if my makeup looks good.
ELLIE GOULDING

Appearance Confident Feeling Goodness Myself
I feel quite proud to be an ambassador for women who realize that being fit is better than being skinny.
ELLIE GOULDING

Ambassador Appearance Better Quite Skin Yourself
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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Design Expensive Myself Rich
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
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
You never know what to expect. You don’t just walk on and expect an amazing reaction.
ELLIE GOULDING

Amazing Expectation Flow Life Reaction Walk Yourself
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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Festival Happiness Knowledge Myself Play Safety
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

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