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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.

Ellie Goulding

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 GOULDING

Happiness Mindset Myself People Quite Sad Song State
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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Diary Honesty Safety Thinking Trouble Writing Yourself
Not 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 GOULDING

Home Hospital Myself Shock Sick Work
I feel quite proud to be an ambassador for women who realize that being fit is better than being skinny.
ELLIE GOULDING

Ambassador Appearance Better Quite Skin Yourself
I love designer stuff but like it will only be like, on a whim. I love Alexander Wang so much, but it’s expensive.
ELLIE GOULDING

Design Expensive Myself Rich
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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Feeling Meaning Myself Nostalgia Song
My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat ’cause they’re calling me.
ELLIE GOULDING

Call Darkness Hard Myself Soul
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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Body Friendship Work Yourself
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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Build Myself Realization Time
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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Home Love Myself Portrait Print Reminder
How long will I love you? As long as stars are above you, And longer if I may.
ELLIE GOULDING

Love Myself Relationship Stardom Willing
I 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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Age Complete Myself Run Start Time
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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Festival Happiness Knowledge Myself Play Safety
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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Funny Genuine Home Myself Warm
You get to a certain age and you can’t judge yourself on your dad or your parents.
ELLIE GOULDING

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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Myself Rare Realization Writing
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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Believe Kind Lost Myself Sea Thinking World
My fans are so funny, they make me laugh so much. I’ve got some really, really, funny, clever fans.
ELLIE GOULDING

Fans Funny Laughter Myself
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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Myself Need Teaching Thinking Value
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.
ELLIE GOULDING

Goodness Job Myself Quite Sing Writing
I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.
ELLIE GOULDING

Inspirational Myself Poetry Story Writing
It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.
ELLIE GOULDING

Artist Live Music Myself Performance Reputation Time
I believe that when you have fans, they invest in you not just as a singer but as a person as well. It’s not enough to just have good songs and a good voice.
ELLIE GOULDING

Believe Fans Goodness Investment Myself Voice
I’d call what I do pop music, but it’s folky and electronic and it doesn’t really sound like much else.
ELLIE GOULDING

Call Music Myself Sound
What people don’t understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.
ELLIE GOULDING

Artist Emotion People Understand Yourself
The nature of how we are as human beings is that we’re much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.
ELLIE GOULDING

Criticism Human Interest Nature Praise
My favourite people to follow on Twitter are… my fans. They make me laugh so much and keep me smiling.
ELLIE GOULDING

Fans Laughter Myself People Smile

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 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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