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 GOULDINGEven when I’m in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.
ELLIE GOULDINGI 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.
ELLIE GOULDINGI’m a bit of a like girly-girl, really, I like flowery stuff.
ELLIE GOULDINGI 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.
ELLIE GOULDINGI 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 GOULDINGNot 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 GOULDINGThe nature of how we are as human beings is that we’re much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.
ELLIE GOULDINGI’m never happy with my face, my hair, I haven’t really got any boobs and I’m not really that tall.
ELLIE GOULDINGIt’s so important to take vitamins. People always get ill on tour because of the close proximity in the bus with everyone.
ELLIE GOULDINGI’ve just become quite fixated on the idea of calmness and peacefulness somewhere, someday.
ELLIE GOULDINGI take inspiration from everything around me, also relationships and friends. And the inside of my crazy head.
ELLIE GOULDINGI 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.
ELLIE GOULDINGThe very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.
ELLIE GOULDINGI guess I’m just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.
ELLIE GOULDINGI 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.
ELLIE GOULDINGI 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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