Latest Ellie Goulding Quotes from Interviews

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• It's good to talk sometimes. Sometimes interviews are really good for you... You end up evaluating yourself more and talk about stuff that an ordinary person wouldn't necessarily keep revisiting. I used to close myself off and want to be alone, but now I'll call a friend. When you're in a relationship, they're that person.

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  Sometimes

• When you reach a point of no return with someone and you feel there's going to be no reconciliation, you have to disconnect. I can't allow myself to be emotionally connected with people like that again, it's too damaging.

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  People, Reconciliation

• I'm genuinely peaceful and positive. I feel more grounded and connected with everything - friends, family. And I think I've changed the way I deal with stuff recently; I'm trying to think of everything in a more positive way because if something gets me down, it'll really gets me down. The thing I wish I could do more of is train. It's the one thing I do that doesn't require any emotion.

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  Thinking, Peaceful, Wish

• Fame doesn't make it hard to date, because I could be seeing someone now and no-one would know. But if you go out with someone who's in the public eye you're asking for trouble. It's double intensity, double scrutiny. Even if I just went on one date with a normal guy, word gets around and that freaks me out. I don't like all that gossipy stuff.

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  Eye, Guy, Freak

• I believe that when you have fans, they invest in you not just as a singer but as a person as well. It's not enough to just have good songs and a good voice.

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  Song, Believe, I Believe

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• You never know what to expect. You don't just walk on and expect an amazing reaction.

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• I would like to be mates with Richard Branson because I've hung out with him and he is just the loveliest person and obviously a very rich guy and has a lot of stuff going on, but he's actually a really, really sound person, and he's really positive and he's got a really good energy, so I'd like to hang out with him a bit more.

  Ellie Goulding

  Guy, Energy, Sound

• I think I'd like to be best friends with Björk, because I'd like to pick her brain a lot all the time and just have weird times together.

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  Thinking, Brain, Together

• I wish I could have hung out with Patti Smith in the seventies, and also have some crazy times.

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  Crazy, Wish, Seventies

• I kind of just want to get to know people and I have a genuine interest in people that listen to my music. I've just always felt like that. I think it's from the days of playing guitar to a few people and being very conversational and very intimate and I've always wanted to keep that vibe.

  Ellie Goulding

  Thinking, Guitar, People

• I'm always intrigued by people that listen to my music, I just naturally want to get to know people who listen to my music because people who end up having such an attachment with my stuff, I wonder why they have such a connection to something that's so personal to me in the first place.

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  Attachment, People, Connections

• Stuff just comes out all the time, sometimes when I sing live it really comes alive and I sort of... I write songs and then almost... not forget about it, but live it really comes out and I suddenly realise what I've written. I don't know where it all comes from.

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  Song, Writing, Alive

• I've never wanted to be a star, I never wanted to be a famous person or anything like that, and I think my fans know that as well.

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  Stars, Thinking, Fans

• I like the idea about somewhere there being a world... somewhere there's a world that I don't know about. But also, that somewhere, there was once something that disappeared.

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  Ideas, World, Knows

• I've just become quite fixated on the idea of calmness and peacefulness somewhere, someday.

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  Ideas, Someday, Calmness

• I think that one day I won't have any kind of... sort of, or it will be either way, I won't have to think about anything. But at the moment, god I think probably because of what I do and the nature of how it is, I'm all over the place all of the time.

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  Thinking, One Day, Way

• I feel like sometimes I'm so positive and sometimes I think the worst of everything or I think the worst is going to happen. It's how I deal with stuff day-to-day, it's just how I get by really, and it's probably not the best way to be.

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  Thinking, Stuff, Way

• Some people don't have a way of that catharsis and I do, so I'm lucky in that sense that people listen to my songs and enjoy my songs. It's a really important thing for me, it's how I channel everything. I don't really know what I'd do if I didn't write songs.

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Writing, People

• When I'm writing obviously I have all the nostalgia in the world, I have all the emotion in the world, but then when I actually perform, I need to just perform it, and that's it. I do retain like a little bit of it because I have to, I sing and perform the songs so I have to - it's a performance of the songs - but I just have to get the right balance.

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  Song, Writing, Balance

• I feel like my songs are very relevant and very meaningful, but I literally have to get rid of the nostalgia for shows because I would just be mess on-stage otherwise.

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  Meaningful, Song, Nostalgia

• Every so often I'll go back down to earth and I'll make reference to a phone or a house or something, something that's a bit more real. But I suppose what that does, is it puts you in a surreal place but also my music doesn't get too carried away in that sense, which I quite like.

  Ellie Goulding

  Real, Phones, House

• I definitely write about a lot of dreamy, surreal stuff. I do end up going to a surreal world with my music, but I also like the idea of there being really real stuff as well.

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  Real, Writing, Ideas

• I'd just like to think that there's some kind of underworld where whoever's been lost at sea is there... I dunno, there probably isn't, but I'd like to believe there is.

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  Believe, Thinking, Sea

• I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.

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  Sea, Stories, Inspired

• I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I trust it.

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  Believe, Writing, Fate