Ellie Goulding Quotes - Page 2

I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do. Strangely it's women who throw their underwear at me when I'm performing live. My male fans tend to be quite shy. My female fans are wild. I never know what to do with all the lingerie that lands at my feet. Maybe I should open a shop.

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.

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.

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.

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

The very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.

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.

I'm quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world really. So in that sense I've got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don't really have to do much else.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I never remember having a plan. All I could think about was how I was going to afford to get into college or where I was going to stay because I hated being at home. I didn't really have time to think about anything in the future. I didn't think about a career or anything. I went to uni, got a couple of jobs, so I sort of funded it myself.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Well, on tour I eat terribly, so I balance that by running a lot. And then I started to run with my fans in certain cities. It sounds very nerdy and un-rock n' roll, but I like it. It's fun, and it's better than meeting fans in weird, awkward circumstances. So I take them running with me.

I never thought that I could make a living out of my voice, to be completely honest. I thought that I could probably keep playing pubs. And it was exciting for me to get even just a pub gig in my town or country, when I went to university.