Ellie Goulding Quotes

Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.

I've had to write in a different way because I'm not in a bad place and I'm not heartbroken, so there's no one I want revenge on.

You bring out a lot of your own thoughts and attitudes when acting. I think a great deal of it has to do with the inner you.

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

Your real feelings are inside you.

I try and stay positive; being negative isn't good for my personality. I don't just bring myself down, I bring everyone around me down. It's like a dark cloud, 'Uh oh, here we go,' and have to snap out of it.

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

I'm an emotional person, a very emotional person.

Complicated feelings are fertile soil for creative ideas.

As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

A person who's only suffering can't write a poem. There are choices to be made, and you need to be objective.

Everyone can teach themselves to cry... but sometimes you have just got to see that mental movie going on. You've got to be feeling it.

I'm a very emotional person.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

My life day in and day out is accessing my emotions and bringing them to the forefront.

What interests me most are the emotional lives of the people. If I don't have that, it's not worth doing, frankly.

No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.

Whenever I make music, it reflects where I'm at mentally.

I guess there are a lot of writers out there who get really inspired when they're depressed. I can't write about being depressed until I'm happy. That's all there is to it. I need space.

I'm not actually as emotional as everybody thinks. The songs are super personal, but that's just one side of me, and I guess people just assume I'm some troubled guy who's constantly sad.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.

I use myself for each part. Naturally, it's my body, it's my soul, it's my feelings. That's the only way I know how to work. I couldn't pretend.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.