Ellie Goulding

My guiltiest pleasure is... chocolates with strawberry cream and trashy television - 'Geordie Shore,' 'Katie,' etc. ”

I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales - when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there's something different about it. And I miss the simple life. ”

It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head. ”

My mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I'm glad I had the upbringing I did. It made me a worrier and a thoughtful, curious person. ”

I was the first person to go to university from my family. ”

The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something. ”

Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much - paranoid and a hypochondriac. ”

I've always been fascinated by the human body, but you can become quite morbid and paranoid if you think too much. ”

I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me. ”

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality. ”