I still love the skinny jeans thing and I wear my favorite leather jacket constantly. I like being kind of a rock star. I love that I can feel comfortable in a small dress or I can feel comfortable wearing a baggy T-shirt.
ELLIE GOULDINGMy 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.
More Ellie Goulding Quotes
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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 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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What people don’t understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.
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I can fall in love in a simple way, but I can dissect it in such an intense fashion when it ends.
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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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My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat ’cause they’re calling me.
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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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You never know what to expect. You don’t just walk on and expect an amazing reaction.
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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.
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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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One of the most powerful feelings in the world is after a really, really long run.
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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.
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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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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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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’d call what I do pop music, but it’s folky and electronic and it doesn’t really sound like much else.
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I think I’d like to be best friends with Björk, because I’d like to pick her brain a lot all the time and just have weird times together.
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I used to be obsessed with Pearl Jam, but I love having pink hair and kind of looking like a Barbie.
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I like being by the ocean.
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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 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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I feel more confident if my makeup looks good.
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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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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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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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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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