Songstress Ellie Goulding has revealed that she's not the good little girl people seem to think she is and admitted that she's just really good at keeping her private life out of the newspapers. 

Speaking to Hunger magazine about ensuring her personal life stays that way, the 'Goodness Gracious' beauty confessed that she tries to make sure nothing gets out because she wants to live life on her own terms without being thought of as a role model:

"Everyone thinks that I'm a very sensible person that I don't do anything naughty. They couldn't be more wrong. Actually, I just keep things out of the press. I just don't want anything to detract from my music. I'm quite cool with what people know at the moment. They've got nothing to judge me on apart from my music - and that's the way I like it."

"My life has become a lot crazier in the last year. I think people definitely recognise me a lot more now and that affects me. I actually get quite freaked out when people stare at me or start taking pictures - I'll never get used to that. I'd enjoy being slightly more anonymous again."

"My life has become so different to how it was five years ago - when I'd finished university and was living by myself in a little flat in Hammersmith - that it's hard to remember what "normal" is."

Watch her recent BRITs performance here: