Ellie Goulding Quotes

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

I deliberately try to carry a different perception of myself as opposed to my father's. I respect my dad and his body of work, but I can't give him credit for what I am today. As a person, I give my parents full credit; career-wise, no.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

People reach an age... where somebody else's platform is no longer yours.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

I am so far more secure and more grounded and more know who I am than when I was in my 20s.

I think I look more like me than my father's daughter now.

I think as I've gotten older and the things I've gone through, I'm not as concerned about what everybody thinks.

I think that when I got to a certain age, it was important to me to sort of analyze my relationship with myself and my past.

There comes a time when you have to grow up and start thinking for yourself.

I had to grow up, reach a certain age where I see people do have something to show me.

I have lived life enough to know that I define myself.

The hand you hold the longest is your own.

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

I was kind of smart enough when I was young, 14 or 15 years old, to realize that if you're ever going to do anything and step out of the shadow of your own dad - not only in hockey, but in life itself - you're going to have to learn you're Brett and not 'Bobby's son.'

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get.

I know how important it is to, you know, to be my own person.