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" My favourite people to follow on Twitter are... my fans. They make me laugh so much and keep me smiling. "
Ellie Goulding
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" My guiltiest pleasure is... chocolates with strawberry cream and trashy television - 'Geordie Shore,' 'Katie,' etc. "
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" After shows my face feels dirty with makeup and sweat, especially in the smaller venues, so it feels good to get back to the bus and smooth it away. Sometimes you need something alcohol-based, especially on tour when you don't always get a chance to keep washing your face all the time. "
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" Gwen Stefani has amazing style. I used to really love Courtney Love, and anything she wore I loved. Or Chloe Sevigny, because I really love that sort of classic look, and I like being girly and flowery, and wearing little D&G dresses. I wear hats a lot, too. I think it goes back to when I was a bit grungy and was a skater girl for a bit. "
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" I used to be obsessed with Pearl Jam, but I love having pink hair and kind of looking like a Barbie. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" I'm never happy with my face, my hair, I haven't really got any boobs and I'm not really that tall. "
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" 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. "
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You
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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'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 feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or something. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" My voice has been very, very produced, and very treated - but then, also, it hasn't. "
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" I would never create an image for myself; I'm not that clever. "
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" It's so important to take vitamins. People always get ill on tour because of the close proximity in the bus with everyone. "
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" I've watched and learnt from DJs and remixers and paid way more attention to how I want my voice to sound. Before, as long as it was loud and in tune it was fine. I've discovered the difference made by various microphones and effects, so each track has a different vocal sound, my voice is woven into everything and it's above everything. "
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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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Down
" Mumford & Sons' music appeals to a lot of America. I'm really proud of them. "
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" I take inspiration from everything around me, also relationships and friends. And the inside of my crazy head. "
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Friends
" 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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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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