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" I feel more confident if my makeup looks good. "
Ellie Goulding
Makeup
Confident
Feel
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" Maybe one day I'll make a record that's really mysterious and no one knows where it came from or what I wrote it about. But thus far, I've just wanted to explain everything properly. "
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One Day
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" My voice has been very, very produced, and very treated - but then, also, it hasn't. "
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Voice
" 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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Home
" If a hundred people want autographs, sometimes you have to say no because you've got to get up for a 4 A.M. flight or something. In that sense, it really pisses me off when people think you've become a diva. It's not becoming a diva, it's because of the situation, I think. "
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People
Situation
Think
" 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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Time
Random
Down
" 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. "
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Together
End
Music
" I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks. "
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Peace
Better
Me
" 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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Weird
Age
She
" 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. "
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Start
London
Live
" 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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Singer
Unusual
Heard
" 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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You
Think
Space
" 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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Fashion
Way
Simple
" I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black. "
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Black
Me
Rebel
" 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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Something
Much
Human
" 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. "
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Brainy
Writing
Me
" 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. "
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Think
You
Too Much
" 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. "
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People
Think
Doing
" I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality. "
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Body
Human
Emotional
" 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! "
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Lights
Together
Time
" I got approached by SoBe a few months ago about being an ambassador and I learned about the previous ones including Naomi Campbell, so I was instantly interested! Then I tried and really liked it. It's different and has interesting flavours... we don't have anything like it in the U.K. "
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Like
Different
Tried
" There are plenty of bands who never get in the charts and it doesn't mean that they're not any good. Actually, a lot of the top ten is filled with stuff that just sounds the same. I could guess what's in there now - probably a bit of GaGa, Beyonce and some U.S. R&B males. "
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Same
Good
Mean
" I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve. "
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Mountains
You
Woods
" 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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Song
Saying
People
" 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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Why
Kid
Know
" I don't think there was ever a moment when I was like, 'Yeah, I want to be a singer!' I guess it just happened. I performed a lot when I was younger and stuff, but I remember getting to the point where I thought I might have to get a normal job. "
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Moment
Thought
Think
" '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. "
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Saying
Care
Parents
" 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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Art
Portrait
Me
" I love pink - pink's my favourite. I hardly ever - weirdly - wear it, but I love the colour pink. "
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Wear
Colour
Favourite
" I would never create an image for myself; I'm not that clever. "
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Create
Clever
Never
" Christmas in L.A. is weird. There's no snow. It's not even cold. "
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Weird
Snow
Even