Ellie Goulding Quotes

I don't write songs.

I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.

I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world.

When I'm sick of myself, and when I don't know what to say as a solo artist, I can write a song for a movie. When I don't know where to turn musically, being in a band - Rilo Kiley or Jenny & Johnny - the collaborative nature is really exciting.

My songs are always four years ahead of me. They're like my teachers.

My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish.

I don't think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the song and hear and feel it, and that big picture is like a snapshot, and it comes to you as fast as it takes to click a camera.

Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.

I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.

Most of the time I don't force records. I'm not one of these guys that put records out every nine, 10 months. I'm pretty long between records. I've only had a few in my career. I kind of wait until I feel I have really strong songs. I don't know if they're going to change the world or not, but I dig 'em, and if I dig 'em we make a record.

When you're writing with an artist or for an artist, you have to help them serve their vision. That's the cool part about writing songs. There are no rules.

I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.

To me, I don't care if I co-write or if I write alone. If it's a great song and it makes it to the record, then that's what is supposed to come, you know what I mean.

I know when I've written a good song when I can imagine the video. If I can't imagine the video straight away, I'm not gonna put it on my album.

Normally when I do an album, I have a concept behind it.

Any time you write a song, you kind of know what you want from it. You know what you're getting from it.

I believe in full albums, and whatever comes out of those full albums will come.

I'm just thinking about the vision for how I want my music to go and what I want it to say. I'm always creating in a way, even if it's just thinking about it.

We wrote the songs we wrote - we took from our own experiences, melded it together, and wrote what became 'Appetite For Destruction.'

When I go in the studio with Post, I have a really good idea of what he's going to gravitate to, what we can work with.

I try to imagine what the greatest song I could ever write would sound like, and then try to do it.

At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.

If I was a painter, I would have hundreds of finished and unfinished canvases in my studio waiting for people to see, and it is the same with my music. I've got so many pieces of music and songs waiting to be heard.

I'm not a machine that just comes up with records and can give them away easily.

I just want to make that my life: recording music and trying to write a good song every day.