Ellie Goulding Quotes

I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I'd be so happy.

Since I was 20 years old, I've been a kind of corporation. I'd wake up in the morning and my job was to be 'Bonnie Raitt' in capital letters.

There are a lot of singers who cannot sing to save their lives. We have to accept it, but thank God there is such a thing as live shows. It's only when people are faced with live shows that the world gets to know how good or how bad they are.

Music is in me. I don't have much of a choice. People might listen to one of my songs or come and see my because of my famous last name, but if my music's not good they won't hang around.

I feel like I can be a frontman; I feel like I have good songs.

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

I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down.

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

Who told you I was a musician?

I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the waters part - just that singing was what I was going to do.

What I always wanted to do was to be a rock star.

I want to get to the point where one day I don't have to have anything but a rug and a microphone stand on stage and still be able to sell out places like Madison Square Garden, like Bruce Springsteen does.

I don't sing as well as my mother. I'm a good actress. I'm not that good a singer.

I want to play in a place people want to hear me.

I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor.

We then went through the audition process and picked a guy named Richard Campbell and he is no secret to L.A. players as he was with Natalie Cole for years and Three Dog Night.

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.

I love live performance and have huge admiration for people who can really do it. It's the same with music: I'll play a record and think that I'm not really into country or ragga. But, if it's live and the musicians are good, I'll listen to pretty much anything.

A lot of people don't know that I'm a singer - that's my thing, really.

See, I don't know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos and was always crazy and aggravating. I just never thought that was a good idea.

I've always known, before I had a record deal, that the thing is to go out and put on the show. I've been doing that from day one.

Anything you can do to get more people to come to your live shows is good, because that's where you can really do what you do. Everyone's on the same page, and you don't have to win strangers over as much.

I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

It's important for me to put out things that I think are good - I want to be a fan of my own stuff. I also want my live shows to be really awesome, and dance is such an important element for me and my performances.