Top 90 Ellie Goulding Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

53. “I’ve just become quite fixated on the idea of calmness and peacefulness somewhere, someday.”

— Ellie Goulding

54. “I just sing and write songs and wear what I want. It’s quite a good job really. If I wanted to I suppose I could become more of a fashion icon, but singing is my thing.”

— Ellie Goulding

55. “I love designer stuff but like it will only be like, on a whim. I love Alexander Wang so much, but it’s expensive.”

— Ellie Goulding

56. “I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don’t know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic – my brother was playing bass in the next room.”

— Ellie Goulding

57. “The very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.”

— Ellie Goulding

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

— Ellie Goulding

59. “Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.”

— Ellie Goulding

60. “When I heard Bjork’s debut, that was when I first realized that I could be a singer, even with my unusual voice.”

— Ellie Goulding

61. “What people don’t understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.”

— Ellie Goulding

62. “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.”

— Ellie Goulding

63. “There are so many things to think about when you make an album. Like, who am I trying to impress? Am I going to get respect, critical acclaim? Or am I going to sell lots of records?”

— Ellie Goulding

64. “I’d like to look like Madonna when I’m her age. I also look at athletes and love their bodies. I’ve always wanted to be muscly, not skinny. A lot of women yo-yo around, but I’m always aware if I’m getting a bit out of shape. I never look at the scales but I can just tell. It goes on my tum and bum.”

— Ellie Goulding

65. “I don’t really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It’s good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly – rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it’s their style.”

— Ellie Goulding

66. “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.”

— Ellie Goulding

67. “I’ve always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers – whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.”

— Ellie Goulding

68. “I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I’d be so happy.”

— Ellie Goulding

69. “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.”

— Ellie Goulding

70. “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.”

— Ellie Goulding

71. “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.”

— Ellie Goulding

72. “I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching.”

— Ellie Goulding

73. “You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It’s really important to start writing young.”

— Ellie Goulding

74. “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

75. “I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.”

— Ellie Goulding

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

— Ellie Goulding

77. “Now, if some panic hits me, you have to sort of be friends with your body, it’s like your body will work against you.”

— Ellie Goulding

78. “I find male singers and what they sing about fascinating. It makes me realize how little we know about ourselves and how little I know about myself. It’s interesting to see the male perspective.”

— Ellie Goulding

79. “You can be the happiest you can be in a relationship but can have an urge to be with someone else. I know a lot of people that it has happened to.”

— Ellie Goulding

80. “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.”

— Ellie Goulding

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

— Ellie Goulding

82. “It’s so important to take vitamins. People always get ill on tour because of the close proximity in the bus with everyone.”

— Ellie Goulding

83. “Drake, I’d like to collaborate with. He’s a phenomenal lyricist. Probably the best rapper in the world at the moment. I love Kanye but there’s something about Drake; he’s more straight up, really clever and really poetic and metaphorical – I love that. He’s just clever.”

— Ellie Goulding

84. “Ever since I’ve been young I’ve been fascinated by the human body. I’ve written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much – paranoid and a hypochondriac.”

— Ellie Goulding

85. “I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.”

— Ellie Goulding

86. “I think hype is a good thing. You need it and it’ll teach you valuable things and you’ll grow stronger, which is what I’ve done.”

— Ellie Goulding

87. “I want to be more like Pixie Lott. She works really hard but always manages to keep smiling. She never complains.”

— Ellie Goulding

88. “I still don’t know if I can write songs. I don’t think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.”

— Ellie Goulding

89. “Bjork, I’d love to do something with her. I’d love to do some sort of crazy orchestral choir thing with her.”

— Ellie Goulding

90. “I tend to write things and review it afterwards and realise what comes out. I very rarely ever write something and have to take it back.”

— Ellie Goulding

91. “I don’t think there was ever a moment when I was like, ‘Yeah, I want to be a singer!’ I guess it just happened. I performed a lot when I was younger and stuff, but I remember getting to the point where I thought I might have to get a normal job.”

— Ellie Goulding

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

— Ellie Goulding

93. “I am so scared of what will kill me in the end for I am not prepared, I hope i’ll get the chance to be someone, to be human, look what we’ve done.”

— Ellie Goulding

94. “I would never create an image for myself; I’m not that clever.”

— Ellie Goulding