216 Quotes by Ellie Goulding

Lauryn Hill is quite political and is very bold and isn’t afraid of wearing her heart on her sleeve, and same with Bjork, except she is a little bit more kind of fragile.

Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer’s patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.

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.

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

I’m never happy with my face, my hair, I haven’t really got any boobs and I’m not really that tall.

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.

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.

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.

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.