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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.

Ellie Goulding

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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Book Children Myself Present Quite Time
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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Children Curiosity Encouragement Mom Myself Person Raise
The nature of how we are as human beings is that we’re much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.
ELLIE GOULDING

Criticism Human Interest Nature Praise
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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Age Complete Myself Run Start Time
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
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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Diary Honesty Safety Thinking Trouble Writing Yourself
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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Believe Kind Lost Myself Sea Thinking World
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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Festival Happiness Knowledge Myself Play Safety
I can fall in love in a simple way, but I can dissect it in such an intense fashion when it ends.
ELLIE GOULDING

End Fall In Love Fashion Myself Simplicity
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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Home Hospital Myself Shock Sick Work
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
Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.
ELLIE GOULDING

Deep Listening Man Music Myself Quite Relationship
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
Apparently I’m introspective, levelheaded, but at the same time, absolutely insane.
ELLIE GOULDING

Character Level Myself Sanity Time
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
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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Body Friendship Work Yourself

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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