Top 66 Ellie Goulding Quotes

Mumford & Sons’ music appeals to a lot of America. I’m really proud of them.

I feel like my figure is a challenge because I’m quite flat chested but I’ve got a booty so I’ve got to look for the right things.

Drake, I’d like to collaborate with. He’s a phenomenal lyricist. Probably the best rapper in the world at the moment. I love Kanye but there’s something about Drake; he’s more straight up, really clever and really poetic and metaphorical – I love that. He’s just clever.

I got a random tattoo the other day. It’s a red triangle, which makes everyone think I’m arty, which I’m not. I used to draw red triangles all the time. It must mean something – maybe I don’t know it yet. But I’ll figure it out.

I’d hate it to become style over substance, I’d hate people to start putting me in a magazine article about my style. I don’t like dressing up in something I’m not necessarily comfortable in just to make it more of a show. I want the power to come from what I sing about and how I sing.

You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It’s really important to start writing young.

I’ve learned not to let it be the end of the world if a boy doesn’t like you. I used to put so much effort into boys. I started playing guitar because I wanted to impress this boy. Then, I ended up in love with guitar and I didn’t care about the boy anymore.

I’ve always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers – whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.

I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.

People always try to find my agenda, but I don’t really have one. It’s safe to say that I make pop, but I think that I’m doing important music, too. I’ve just always done what I wanted to do.

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.

What people don’t understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.

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.

I’m a bit of a like girly-girl, really, I like flowery stuff.

One of the most powerful feelings in the world is after a really, really long run.

I’m really proud of ‘Bright Lights’ because I was still in the mind frame of my first album when I was putting it together, but next time I want to display something different. I don’t want to be as young, immature and all about boys!

I would never create an image for myself; I’m not that clever.

Christmas in L.A. is weird. There’s no snow. It’s not even cold.

Cover versions, that’s my forte, that’s all I ever used to do. When you play your own songs, it’s quite scary, ’cause I’m quite honest and open, they can be very revealing. But covers, I don’t have to think about, just get me up there!

Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I’m making music because we write it together and produce it together. I’ve got a proper involvement in the end product as opposed to just writing a song and finding someone else to produce it.

It’s usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It’s such a cliche to say that artists write when they’re down, but it’s true for me. It’s a relief to get out what’s eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.

I’d like a male to listen to my music and find it kind of fascinating, what a girl goes through when they get heartbroken or get sad or get hurt by something.

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.

‘I Know You Care’ is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it’s about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It’s about this idea of losing someone for good.

I can fall in love in a simple way, but I can dissect it in such an intense fashion when it ends.

I love pink – pink’s my favourite. I hardly ever – weirdly – wear it, but I love the colour pink.

I’d call what I do pop music, but it’s folky and electronic and it doesn’t really sound like much else.

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.

There are so many things to think about when you make an album. Like, who am I trying to impress? Am I going to get respect, critical acclaim? Or am I going to sell lots of records?

You get to a certain age and you can’t judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

I never thought I’d say the sentence ‘It was a real honour’ – because that implies that you’ve done something pretty special. But now I’ve done that several times. Yesterday I was in Buckingham Palace – I actually met the Queen yesterday and that was an honour. I never thought I’d do something like that.

My fancy dress costume of choice is… something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail. An excuse for ultimate dressing-up indulgence.

I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you’d think it’d be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it’s quite comforting.

Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.

Ever since I’ve been young I’ve been fascinated by the human body. I’ve written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much – paranoid and a hypochondriac.

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.

I don’t really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It’s good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly – rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it’s their style.

I take inspiration from everything around me, also relationships and friends. And the inside of my crazy head.

When I heard Bjork’s debut, that was when I first realized that I could be a singer, even with my unusual voice.

I used to make my manager Jamie not tell me where I was going to be the next day, because I was so afraid of flying and of anything. But now I love flying, I love working hard, I love being around the world.

Every day I’d say I look different. Sometimes I look really formal, sometimes I love the classic Stella McCartney, Chloe Sevigny and Gwyneth Paltrow thing. Other days I like being rock star and wearing leather jackets and studs. I love wearing Burberry – it’s the perfect combination of formal and punky.

I’ve got a song called ‘Salt Skin’ because when you run in the heat it evaporates and you’ve got salt crystals on your face. I love that, because it means you’ve worked really hard.

America saw me as a projection of me that I always wanted. That’s why I love going to America so much. I feel like I started off in America exactly how I wanted to start everywhere.

I suffer panic attacks which has made me really conscious about my fitness and I have become addicted to jogging. It might sound odd but a lot of good has come out of it. My fans send letters saying they have taken up jogging because I do it.

I want to be more like Pixie Lott. She works really hard but always manages to keep smiling. She never complains.

You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith’s autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.

I’ve always been fascinated by the human body, but you can become quite morbid and paranoid if you think too much.

I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don’t know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic – my brother was playing bass in the next room.

‘I Know You Care’ is about my dad. And I haven’t seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a – it was my way of saying that I wasn’t bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.

The nature of how we are as human beings is that we’re much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.

My voice has been very, very produced, and very treated – but then, also, it hasn’t.

Breakups just hit you harder when you’re younger. When I was a teenager, it felt like the most depressing thing in the world if a boy I was infatuated with didn’t like me back!

I was the first person to go to university from my family.

I’m not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I’m obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.