Ellie Goulding Quotes

I've only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous.

I love singing live, actually. And I'm dying to sing in a role, whether it's in a musical or a biographical film about a singer. It's always been one of my aspirations.

Growing up, I always wanted to be a singer, and I've done that.

When I was younger, I just wanted to be a singer.

I still get surprised that people don't know that I sing.

I didn't know I was gonna act. I thought I was gonna be a singer because that's what I did first, and I was like, 'When I grow up, I want to be, you know, a singer.'

It has been a dream of mine to be a singer, and now I'm living this dream, singing some beautiful songs and winning people's hearts with my voice.

As a newcomer, you know, you don't come out the gate as a singer and try to compare with Judy Garland.

I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.

I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

I never thought that I could make a living out of my voice, to be completely honest. I thought that I could probably keep playing pubs. And it was exciting for me to get even just a pub gig in my town or country, when I went to university.

I knew I always wanted to sing.

For three years, between 16 and 19, I was the opening-act-for-the-opening-act-for-the-opening-act, you know? And then I was on tour with Ice-T, Stetsasonic, EPMD, Sir Mix-a-Lot - legends - and went on to sell 160 million records. It still baffles me.

I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.

I never said that I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. I didn't know. I thought I was going to be a singer and musician. That's what I had been doing, for a huge part of my life.

I've been singing since I was 8 years old and working in clubs since I was 14. I've been working full time since I was 16.

My sole focus as far back as I can remember was all about my dream to become a singer.

Growing up, I always wanted to sing.

I've been performing since 1955. I'm going to have to keep performing till I die because I'm not going to die in some rocking chair with a big ol' beer belly.

I got into singing when I was 6.