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 GOULDINGYou get to a certain age and you can’t judge yourself on your dad or your parents.
More Ellie Goulding Quotes
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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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What people don’t understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.
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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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You never know what to expect. You don’t just walk on and expect an amazing reaction.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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One of the most powerful feelings in the world is after a really, really long run.
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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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You get to a certain age and you can’t judge yourself on your dad or your parents.
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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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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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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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I’m a bit of a like girly-girl, really, I like flowery stuff.
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I’ve just become quite fixated on the idea of calmness and peacefulness somewhere, someday.
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Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.
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