Ellie Goulding Quotes

I wish I was a prolific writing wondrous boy genius - I wish I was Stevie Wonder - but I wasn't. I was me. I wrote terrible songs about girls I was head-over-heels about. As soon as a pretty girl looks at me, that's it - I'm in love, and I should probably write a song about it!

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.

I still write more songs about girls than anything else.

The very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.

He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn't paint me anymore.

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

Who can blind lover's eyes?

To be in love with Debo Devonshire is hardly a distinction.

I believe everyone is mad when they are in love, and I don't think that can ever end.

A lot of artists fell in love with me over the years.

One is very crazy when in love.

What's love if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get back once lost? What's hate if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get rid of once found?

The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.

If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.

I wrote '('Til) I Kissed You' about a girl I met in Australia. Her name was Lilian, and she was very, very inspirational. I was married, but... I wrote the song about her on the way back home.

My first love, in my head, believe it or not, was Ron Howard.

You're not sick you're just in love.

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

The first song I wrote was called 'You,' and it was a love song about somebody who didn't even exist.

I fell in love at 14 and I remember that mad, tense feeling and all the mad things you do for the person - all those extremes and all the stuff you don't mind putting up with.

Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.