216 Quotes by Ellie Goulding

Even if a relationship doesn’t work out, you can always take something positive from something negative. You never know what’s around the corner.

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.

I’d hate it to become style over substance, I’d hate people to start putting me in a magazine article about my style. I don’t like dressing up in something I’m not necessarily comfortable in just to make it more of a show. I want the power to come from what I sing about and how I sing.

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.

I’m quite private. And I never wanted to be the biggest star in the world, really. So in that sense I’ve got a good balance of doing great shows, of making an appearance every now and then and writing music, and I don’t really have to do much else.

My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat ’cause they’re calling me.

I’d call what I do pop music, but it’s folky and electronic and it doesn’t really sound like much else.

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