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 GOULDINGThe 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.
More Ellie Goulding Quotes
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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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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 like being by the ocean.
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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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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 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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You get to a certain age and you can’t judge yourself on your dad or your parents.
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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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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 very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.
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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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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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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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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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