3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding 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.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding I’d like a male to listen to my music and find it kind of fascinating, what a girl goes through when they get heartbroken or get sad or get hurt by something.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding 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.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding 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.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding 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.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding 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.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding People always try to find my agenda, but I don’t really have one. It’s safe to say that I make pop, but I think that I’m doing important music, too. I’ve just always done what I wanted to do.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding 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.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding The only day I remember of my parents’ marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding 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.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding You get to a certain age and you can’t judge yourself on your dad or your parents.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or something.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding I’d call what I do pop music, but it’s folky and electronic and it doesn’t really sound like much else.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding 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.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding 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?
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding Even when I’m in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding 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.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding ‘I Know You Care’ is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it’s about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It’s about this idea of losing someone for good.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding 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.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding 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.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I’ve spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I’ve always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.
3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding Mumford & Sons’ music appeals to a lot of America. I’m really proud of them.
