Ellie Goulding Quotes

Writing is about bringing something from inside you that you're trying to say, and not just trying to say something to please someone else.

No matter what I put out, no matter what genre - because I feel like I'm going to experiment with everything - I hope people will see that it's true to me, that it's honest, and nobody ever thinks that I'm inauthentic.

My greatest achievement is being able to write records that are real snapshots of what's going on in my life. I won't repeat myself for the sake of commerce, or to please other people.

I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.

We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.

The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.

I just always make honest music. I just always kinda do what I wanna do.

I can't just sing karaoke; I can't do anything to try to sound like other people. I have to find what I naturally sound like and emphasize that.

Sometimes I think it's the responsibility of the artist to reveal a little more of themselves.

If I was just trying to imitate an American or English singer, it would sound fake. I'm sure of it.

George Carlin put it best. He said, "My old act was so easy to do because there was so little of me in it."

I knew what I didn't want, and I knew whatever it was going to be it had to be believable and it had to come from me and I had to drive it. The way I write is very honest and when I think of the music that I listened to growing up, I loved it because I believed it.

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

Make sure that everything you produce and create is organic to you.

People ask me all the time, "What are your influences? Are you trying to do Beckett?" It's like, "No, I'm trying to do me." Whatever that is. I don't know what that is, but that's the basis. I'm trying to be true and I'm trying to be honest.

If I was singing like somebody else, then it was almost like I was expressing myself like somebody else. So it was always a very original thing for me. It's my voice, it's my diary, it's the way I connect with people.

Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.

I don't think I've ever made a conscious effort to alter the sound. I don't see the point. I have to remain true to how I sing. I'm perfectly happy with what I am. Whatever that is.

You're supposed to be who you are. You're supposed to make music that is true to you.

I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.

Write the story you need to tell and want to read. It's impossible to know what others want, so don't waste time trying to guess.

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else.

I don't want people to just hand me music and be like, 'Here, you sound good on this. Sing it.' I want to be able to say, 'This is me.'