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" 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. "
Ellie Goulding
Hurt
Sad
Music
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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
Everything
" 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. "
Ellie Goulding
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Born
Sister
" 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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" 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. "
Ellie Goulding
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Detail
Dress
" 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 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
Long
Good
Happy
" 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. "
Ellie Goulding
Feel
Start
Me
" I take inspiration from everything around me, also relationships and friends. And the inside of my crazy head. "
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Relationships
Me
Friends
" 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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College
Future
Home
" My favourite people to follow on Twitter are... my fans. They make me laugh so much and keep me smiling. "
Ellie Goulding
People
Laugh
Follow
" I'm a bit of a like girly-girl, really, I like flowery stuff. "
Ellie Goulding
Really
Like
Bit
" 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'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. "
Ellie Goulding
People
Said
Music
" I feel more confident if my makeup looks good. "
Ellie Goulding
Makeup
Confident
Feel
" 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. "
Ellie Goulding
Run
You
Song
" 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. "
Ellie Goulding
Together
End
Music
" 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. "
Ellie Goulding
Think
You
Too Much
" I was the first person to go to university from my family. "
Ellie Goulding
First
Go
Person
" I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs. "
Ellie Goulding
Write
I Can
Know
" 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. "
Ellie Goulding
Words
You
Poetry
" 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. "
Ellie Goulding
Me
Fitness
Fans
" I wrote 'Lights' a long, long time ago. And I expected it to be on the album, because it was - I wrote it with 'Biff' Stannard. And he wrote every single Spice Girls song and every single pop song of the 90s, basically. So I thought, you know, I was really lucky to work with him, but I didn't think it would be a big song for some reason. "
Ellie Goulding
Work
Thought
Time
" You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really important to start writing young. "
Ellie Goulding
Start
Writing
You
" On stage I have to be comfortable because I play guitar so I can't wear too much jewellery, it knocks against the guitar and makes loud noises. I had this big gold eagle necklace which I love but I kept whacking myself in the face with it so had to stop wearing it. I wear things that I can sweat in, basically... it gets really hot on stage. "
Ellie Goulding
Love
Gold
Face
" 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
" 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. "
Ellie Goulding
You
Think
Space
" Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do. "
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Happy
Mind
People
" 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. "
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Write
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Got
" 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. "
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Time
You
Trouble
" When I sing along with Britney Spears I will sing in an American accent. But eventually I found my own voice. My songs are so brutally honest, it would be alien to sing in any accent other than my own. Don't get me wrong - I can imitate singers. I can do bar mitzvahs and weddings. "
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