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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

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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Challenge Criticism Music Weakness Yourself
Even when I’m in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.
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Happiness Mindset Myself People Quite Sad Song State
The smallest changes, like I stopped eating meat and I’ve been doing different kinds of exercise like Yoga and stuff like that, little changes have made me feel a bit more at peace I think.
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Challenge Different Eat Exercise Kind Myself Peace Small
The very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.
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Love Man Myself Obsession Song Writing
You get to a certain age and you can’t judge yourself on your dad or your parents.
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Age Father Judgement Parents Yourself
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
I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I trust it.
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Believe Fate Moments Myself Reason Trust Writing
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
I’ve never wanted to be a star, I never wanted to be a famous person or anything like that, and I think my fans know that as well.
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Famous Fans Myself Person Stardom Thinking
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.
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Believe Kind Lost Myself Sea Thinking World
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.
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Funny Genuine Home Myself Warm
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
I definitely write about a lot of dreamy, surreal stuff. I do end up going to a surreal world with my music, but I also like the idea of there being really real stuff as well.
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Dreams Fantasy Music Myself Surreal Writing
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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Book Children Myself Present Quite Time
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
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

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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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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