Top 90 Ellie Goulding Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m a bit of a like girly-girl, really, I like flowery stuff.”

— Ellie Goulding

2. “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.”

— Ellie Goulding

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

— Ellie Goulding

4. “I guess I’m just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.”

— Ellie Goulding

5. “I still love the skinny jeans thing and I wear my favorite leather jacket constantly. I like being kind of a rock star. I love that I can feel comfortable in a small dress or I can feel comfortable wearing a baggy T-shirt.”

— Ellie Goulding

6. “I feel more confident if my makeup looks good.”

— Ellie Goulding

7. “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

8. “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.”

— Ellie Goulding

9. “I feel like my figure is a challenge because I’m quite flat chested but I’ve got a booty so I’ve got to look for the right things.”

— Ellie Goulding

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

— Ellie Goulding

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

— Ellie Goulding

12. “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.”

— Ellie Goulding

13. “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

14. “I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you’d think it’d be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it’s quite comforting.”

— Ellie Goulding

15. “I was the first person to go to university from my family.”

— Ellie Goulding

16. “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.”

— Ellie Goulding

17. “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

18. “I got a random tattoo the other day. It’s a red triangle, which makes everyone think I’m arty, which I’m not. I used to draw red triangles all the time. It must mean something – maybe I don’t know it yet. But I’ll figure it out.”

— Ellie Goulding

19. “One of the most powerful feelings in the world is after a really, really long run.”

— Ellie Goulding

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

— Ellie Goulding

21. “Cover versions, that’s my forte, that’s all I ever used to do. When you play your own songs, it’s quite scary, ’cause I’m quite honest and open, they can be very revealing. But covers, I don’t have to think about, just get me up there!”

— Ellie Goulding

22. “In Australia and New Zealand, and New Zealand especially, I always find everyone is so nice and friendly. It’s one of the few places that I remember visually, like I remember where I stayed and my surroundings – and that’s a good sign, because I’ve got a terrible memory. I’m looking forward to it!”

— Ellie Goulding

23. “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.”

— Ellie Goulding

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

— Ellie Goulding

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

— Ellie Goulding

26. “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.”

— Ellie Goulding

27. “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.”

— Ellie Goulding

28. “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!”

— Ellie Goulding

29. “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.”

— Ellie Goulding

30. “The nature of how we are as human beings is that we’re much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.”

— Ellie Goulding

31. “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.”

— Ellie Goulding

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

— Ellie Goulding

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33. “I suffer panic attacks which has made me really conscious about my fitness and I have become addicted to jogging. It might sound odd but a lot of good has come out of it. My fans send letters saying they have taken up jogging because I do it.”

— Ellie Goulding

34. “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.”

— Ellie Goulding

35. “I think all the covers I do have nice sentiments, particularly ‘Your Song.’ People write me very sweet messages about that song, though I’m sure there are people out there saying that I’ve ruined it too!”

— Ellie Goulding

36. “I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales – when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there’s something different about it. And I miss the simple life.”

— Ellie Goulding

37. “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.”

— Ellie Goulding

38. “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.”

— Ellie Goulding

39. “I love pink – pink’s my favourite. I hardly ever – weirdly – wear it, but I love the colour pink.”

— Ellie Goulding

40. “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.”

— Ellie Goulding

41. “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.”

— Ellie Goulding

42. “My fans are so funny, they make me laugh so much. I’ve got some really, really, funny, clever fans.”

— Ellie Goulding

43. “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.”

— Ellie Goulding

44. “I think, it is a challenge to get critics or whoever to see past what you wear and makeup and the way you look and just concentrate on the music.”

— Ellie Goulding

45. “I like being by the ocean.”

— Ellie Goulding

46. “Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I’m making music because we write it together and produce it together. I’ve got a proper involvement in the end product as opposed to just writing a song and finding someone else to produce it.”

— Ellie Goulding

47. “The smallest changes, like I stopped eating meat and I’ve been doing different kinds of exercise like Yoga and stuff like that, little changes have made me feel a bit more at peace I think.”

— Ellie Goulding

48. “Something funny always happens in every show in the UK and I genuinely love touring the UK because it’s where I’m from. I just get a warm feeling when I’m home.”

— Ellie Goulding

49. “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.”

— Ellie Goulding

50. “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.”

— Ellie Goulding