"Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do."

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When Ellie Goulding speaks about happiness, it invites us to pause and reflect on our own journey. How often do we consider the subtle impacts of happiness in our daily lives? This thought-provoking perspective challenges conventional wisdom and encourages a deeper understanding of ourselves.

About Ellie Goulding

Elena Jane Goulding is an English singer-songwriter and activist. She has achieved significant commercial success, earning multiple chart records in the United Kingdom and internationally. Goulding has also received recognition for her songwriting, activism for the environmental movement, humanitarian work and support for LGBTQ people's causes.

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"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."

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"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."

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