People always try to find my agenda, but I don't really have one. It's safe to say that I make pop, but I think that I'm doing important music, too. I've just always done what I wanted to do. Ellie Goulding on music
Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I'm making music because we write it together and produce it together. I've got a proper involvement in the end product as opposed to just writing a song and finding someone else to produce it. Ellie Goulding on music
Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls tumbling, gushing. Julie Andrews on music
I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad. Willie Nelson on music
I'd like a male to listen to my music and find it kind of fascinating, what a girl goes through when they get heartbroken or get sad or get hurt by something. Ellie Goulding on music
A lot of country music is sad. Willie Nelson on music
I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her. Ellie Goulding on music
There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world. Willie Nelson on music
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. Ellie Goulding on music
I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B. Willie Nelson on music
I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general. Ellie Goulding on music
We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it. Leonard Cohen on music
I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve. Ellie Goulding on music
I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever! LeBron James on music
I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style. Ellie Goulding on music
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played. Ludwig Wittgenstein on music
I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invitation to sing at his wedding reception came completely out of the blue. The fact that Kate and William knew the words to my songs was very touching. Ellie Goulding on music
Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature. Ravi Shankar on music
I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks. Ellie Goulding on music
I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music. David Hockney on music