Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like Im making music because we write it together and produce it together. Ive got a proper involvement in the end product as opposed to just writing a song and finding someone else to produce it. – Ellie Goulding
Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimers 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
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
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
Pop stardom is not very compelling. Im much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and theres no pomp and circumstance to the performance. Theres no, like, Ill be the rock star, you be the adulating fan. – Ani DiFranco