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
I instinctively dress a bit tougher because Ive spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. Ive always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black. – Ellie Goulding
I dont really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. Its 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 its their style. – Ellie Goulding
Ive 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
Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it. But when we pick ourselves up we find our bones are, after all, not broken; while level enough and not unpleasing is the new terrace which lies unexplored before us. – Logan Pearsall Smith, “Age and Death,” Afterthoughts, 1931