Ellie Goulding Quotes

I wish I was a prolific writing wondrous boy genius - I wish I was Stevie Wonder - but I wasn't. I was me. I wrote terrible songs about girls I was head-over-heels about. As soon as a pretty girl looks at me, that's it - I'm in love, and I should probably write a song about it!

I was probably about fourteen I think, and probably like every boy who's fourteen that writes a song, it was about a girl. It was about a girl who I really liked, but she didn't like me as much as I liked her. I think most guys go through that.

I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation.

I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.

You can't go on telling, 'I am in love.'

A lot of artists fell in love with me over the years.

I am a sucker for romance and I love girls and that is a terrible combination, because romance has the ability to overwhelm your perspective.

I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself.

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

I like to do little obsessed losers, or people who are in over their head, or people who are trying to figure stuff out, or guys whose girlfriends leave them and they don't quite get it. Guys who just don't quite get it.

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.

When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

I went to the University of Vermont because I had a kind of unrequited love for this high school girlfriend. She wasn't even at the University but at another school nearby. But I thought if went to a school near her, just maybe... I was really remedial about girls in so many ways.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that.

When you write an album and you're writing about relationships, the stuff that I've been through in my relationships, 99 percent of it is really good, but it's that one percent that always inspires you to write a song.

Who can blind lover's eyes?

I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.

For lack of a better word, I've let love and infatuation emasculate me.

I think some of the best songs are written in love and then out of love. That's the best time to put something together.

My first love was Heath Ledger.

No one forgets their first love. You're experiencing all those endorphins and all that dopamine and that obsession with one another for the very first time in your life, so it makes it that much more cute.

I've definitely been obsessed with a couple of girls. They didn't work out.

The boy I was crazy about was super into photography, so I weaseled my way into AP Photo to impress him and spend more time with him. He never liked me back, but I ended up spending most my senior year in the darkroom - it became a sort of safe haven for me.

You know that first love that leaves you? You never forget that, especially if you're a songwriter. I must have gotten nine songs out of that girl.

I like hot people being hot. How else do you explain my high school infatuation with Ricky Martin in all his shirtless glory?