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" 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. "

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Heart

Bold

Political

" I've learned not to let it be the end of the world if a boy doesn't like you. I used to put so much effort into boys. I started playing guitar because I wanted to impress this boy. Then, I ended up in love with guitar and I didn't care about the boy anymore. "

" I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs. "

" What people don't understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally. "

" 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. "

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

" The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone. "

" 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. "

" Because I've always been a runner I love to feel that my body is shining on the inside. I wear baggy clothes, so it's not as though I like showing it off. I just like to know I'm great on the inside. "

" I used to be obsessed with Pearl Jam, but I love having pink hair and kind of looking like a Barbie. "

" 'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good. "

" The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something. "

" I've changed the way I look a bit but not intentionally. I've cut my hair. I've got a bit of pink in it and lately I've become a bit monochrome, wearing a lot of black and white. "

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

Ellie Goulding

People

Laugh

" 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. "

Ellie Goulding

Anger

Mind

" I take inspiration from everything around me, also relationships and friends. And the inside of my crazy head. "

Ellie Goulding

Relationships

Friends

" 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. "

" 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

Rebel

" 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. "

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

" Christmas in L.A. is weird. There's no snow. It's not even cold. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a bit of a like girly-girl, really, I like flowery stuff. "

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Really

Bit

" 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. "

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Balance

Run

" 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. "

" Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do. "

" 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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Call

Much

" Apparently I'm introspective... levelheaded... but at the same time, absolutely insane. "