

It’s rare to find a songwriter like that, so I feel quite privileged to work with her really. That’s it!’ And you just know and get a connection.

Then all of sudden we’ll get to a lyric and go: ‘Oh, my God. We’ll just sit there and just think and think and think and nothing ever comes easily. When we get together we both think the same way and I feel like we come from the same universe. It just so happens that I’m writing with someone at the moment - we’re two girls that obviously over think a lot. So it never ends up being good enough for me if I know I haven’t put enough emotional detail into it. When I’m in the studio I can always tell if I haven’t really made an effort on something or put enough emotion in something as I should have. Onstage is just so energetic and then in the studio a lot of it is brain power because I really want to say what I feel. Given how hyper energetic your live performances are, is it a struggle to get the same level of passion and intensity when working in the recording studio? You’re currently working in London on your forthcoming third studio album. It’s also in London and I always embrace something that’s easy to get to! I live down the road, but I’m going to stay here tonight anyway as there is a boot camp just two minutes away that I want to do in the morning. It’s mostly just a lot of hotels and a lot of time in a tour bus. Something that people don’t realize is that hotel life just becomes your life because we’re on the road constantly. I would say it’s a fitting endorsement because if there’s one thing that all people on tour can relate to it is hotels and how important the quality of them, the staff, the gym and the pool is. Do you feel that music artists and hotel companies make for a natural match? You’re here today to launch the partnership between Marriott International and your label home, Universal Music Group.

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Speaking exclusively to Billboard at the launch of a major, year-long global marketing partnership between Marriott International and Universal Music Group - which will feature a series of exclusive live performances for hotel guests across Marriott’s global portfolio, as well as ticket offers and original video content - Goulding talks about her upcoming third studio album, reuniting with Swedish uber hitmaker Max Martin and her regret that she never got to meet Amy Winehouse. Goulding’s own status as the current queen of British pop was confirmed earlier this year when “Love Me Like You Do,” from the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack, spent four weeks at No. “Everyone kept on saying: ‘Are you okay?’ And I was going: ‘I’m fine.’ But I do remember afterwards feeling that my head was not really attached to my body,” she explains, looked down upon by a somewhat stern-looking portrait of Queen Elizabeth II that’s hanging on the suite’s far wall. Only last month, Goulding tweeted that she had given herself concussion as a result of a characteristically hyperactive performance supporting close friend Taylor Swift‘s sell-out show at London’s Hyde Park. There has, however, been plenty of near-misses along the way. Ellie Goulding Covers Hozier’s ‘Take Me to Church’: Listen
