Ellie Goulding Quotes

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Ellie Goulding

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 30, 1986

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'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 record stuff all the time, like little vocal things. I write random things down... Sometimes I just get things stuck in my head and I record them, and that actually becomes a song quite a lot of the time.

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I find male singers and what they sing about fascinating. It makes me realize how little we know about ourselves and how little I know about myself. It's interesting to see the male perspective.

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

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Lauryn Hill is quite political and is very bold and isn't afraid of wearing her heart on her sleeve, and same with Bjork, except she is a little bit more kind of fragile.

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I think all the covers I do have nice sentiments, particularly 'Your Song.' People write me very sweet messages about that song, though I'm sure there are people out there saying that I've ruined it too!

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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.

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

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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.

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I couldn't really relate much to my younger sister, because she was born in 1992, and I was born in 1986. And then my older sister, we just didn't get on that much. Although we bonded over hating our stepdad.

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

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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.

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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.

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My favourite people to follow on Twitter are... my fans. They make me laugh so much and keep me smiling.

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My guiltiest pleasure is... chocolates with strawberry cream and trashy television - 'Geordie Shore,' 'Katie,' etc.

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

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

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Two things I'm obsessed with are the countryside and fields and being in the open space and body parts, so you'll hear me mentioning body parts and human anatomy. I've listened to my songs and I think I am quite visual and I talk about bones and flesh a lot.

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

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