Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding

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
Ellie Goulding

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
Ellie Goulding

Gwen Stefani has amazing style. I used to really love Courtney Love, and anything she wore I loved. Or Chloe Sevigny, because I really love that sort of classic look, and I like being girly and flowery, and wearing little D&G dresses. I wear hats a lot, too. I think it goes back to when I was a bit grungy and was a skater girl for a bit.

Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding

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
Ellie Goulding

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

Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding

I keep getting compared to Marina and the Diamonds because she's kind of in the same place as me at the moment. It's quite annoying being compared, actually, because it almost downgrades your work and makes you feel like you're just another female artist.

Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding

I couldn't really relate much to my younger sister, because she was born in 1992, and I was born in 1986. And then my older sister, we just didn't get on that much. Although we bonded over hating our stepdad.

Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding

My favourite people to follow on Twitter are... my fans. They make me laugh so much and keep me smiling.

Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding

I record stuff all the time, like little vocal things. I write random things down... Sometimes I just get things stuck in my head and I record them, and that actually becomes a song quite a lot of the time.

Ellie Goulding
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.

Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding

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

Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.

Ellie Goulding
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.

Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding

Christmas in L.A. is weird. There's no snow. It's not even cold.

Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding

I've watched and learnt from DJs and remixers and paid way more attention to how I want my voice to sound. Before, as long as it was loud and in tune it was fine. I've discovered the difference made by various microphones and effects, so each track has a different vocal sound, my voice is woven into everything and it's above everything.

Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding

I wrote 'Lights' a long, long time ago. And I expected it to be on the album, because it was - I wrote it with 'Biff' Stannard. And he wrote every single Spice Girls song and every single pop song of the 90s, basically. So I thought, you know, I was really lucky to work with him, but I didn't think it would be a big song for some reason.

Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding

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
Ellie Goulding

I never expected to get the Tom Jones treatment and it amazes me that I do. Strangely it's women who throw their underwear at me when I'm performing live. My male fans tend to be quite shy. My female fans are wild. I never know what to do with all the lingerie that lands at my feet. Maybe I should open a shop.

Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding

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
Ellie Goulding

Apparently I'm introspective... levelheaded... but at the same time, absolutely insane.