Ellie Goulding Quotes

I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it gets easier as you go.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

There was never an 'a-ha' moment when a spider bit me and I knew I could write songs. For that reason, I don't know if I'm always going to be able to. I want to write songs forever, but it's an elusive thing.

I didn't know if I could write. I was writing all these songs at home and was like, 'Maybe I can write?'

I have been fighting writing songs for a long time. People keep telling me I should write, and other writers have offered to write with me, and to be honest, it's not something I've ever really had a passion for - plus I wasn't sure I had the talent to do it!

When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.

Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.

I don't think I'm a good-enough songwriter.

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

I really feel like I've nailed songwriting. It's my specialty; it's what I'm good at.

I came to the Unites States and realised I had a knack for coming up with rhymes and lyrics.

I used to write random little stupid things when I was five, but then the first song I really wrote was one called 'Fingers Crossed,' which is on SoundCloud.

I've been composing and performing for as long as I can remember.

The most difficult thing for me as an artist, as a creator of music, is lyrics. But everything else, I just do it.

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

I've never had a writer's block, but still I think: 'Is it going to happen this time?' You never know what you're going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it.

My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely certain that what I've written is any good.

I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

I can write music but I'm not much for words.

I've always tended to write songs prolifically.