Ellie Goulding Quotes

Certain punk bands were influential because I thought, If they can do that then I can .Hanging around those bands was how I started my first band - In Praise of Lemmings.

I'd love to do a comedy. I always told myself that I don't have funny bones, and then I was working with Dervla Kirwan in 'Uncle Vanya,' and she was like, 'Lara, you're really, really funny.' And I realised I am, and that's not even me blowing my own trumpet.

I suffered from low self-esteem for much of my life. And now to feel like maybe something that I'm projecting or saying could mean something to someone means a lot to me.

I think about the very truth that changed my life. I want to put good things in my music.

A rock star, according to my definition, is someone who inspires people around him with something he is best at. In my case, it's music, but I wanted audiences to realise there is a rock star waiting to be unleashed within them as well.

I listen to lots of artists. But I remember discovering John Mayer, whose music made me want to write my own. And so I did.

When I saw Courtney Love in 1994, I knew what I wanted to do. The minute I saw a female-fronted rock n' roll band, that changed my life.

For me, Surya's 'Varanam Ayiram' is a big inspiration.

It's truly disheartening to me to see so many beautiful women who have no idea what their potential is.

I want my story to help others see what's extraordinary in themselves.

I just try to do things that make me excited. If I can find a way to surprise myself, then that's when I'm really excited to share something and really can stand behind it.

And my mom has always wanted me to be who I was born to be and whoever I want to be and inspire to be in life. So my mom is really supportive and I love that.

Artists like Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Albert King, Ann Peebles, Isaac Hayes, and so many more gave me hope when I was an angst-filled teenager trying to make sense of it all... They were my teachers. Through their music, I learned how to live, how to be true to myself, and how to tell my story as a songwriter the way that I was feeling it.

I'm on this journey to inspire people and to encourage them.

Kids will tell me 'oh I want to be like you when I grow up,' you know. I just thought 'nah, don't be like me, be like you,' because first of all they don't really know me but second of all I understand what they're trying to say but I just let them know - be like you.

'My Name Is' by Eminem was a song that changed my life.

I've been blessed enough to have my eyes open because of music, first and foremost.

If you're having a hard time recognizing your gifts, look to someone else you know who's been resourceful. You may be surprised by how your own strengths rise to the surface by watching someone else.

My only incentive is to write music that changes me, where the process of making it is a discovery and is true in some way, at that moment.

I looked up to Too Short before I was making my own music.

A lot of my music is inspired by personal situations in my life.

We thought: 'Let's write songs about our relationships, the world, our anxieties - let's make the most of this.'

I think that for a lot of people, I inspire them to be themselves.

The Olympics were life-changing for me. I felt I went in as a girl and came out as a woman.

When I was 14, I had no idea who I was, and it was so confusing. So to see strong, confident girls, that I get to be around all the time, it's so amazing. It's reinvigorating for me.