Ellie Goulding: 'I want to be surrounded by powerful women, not men'

'Burn' songstress Ellie Goulding has revealed that she values her female friends very highly because she loves being surrounded by strong and 'powerful women'.

Speaking to Glamour magazine, the hitmaker explained that she has some famous female friends, including the likes of Katy Perry and Taylor Swift, and she believes they mesh so well because they're all in the same industry and experience similar things:

"We're friends because they understand the predicaments. They see what is and isn't real. I'm not anywhere near their level of fame, but if I say, 'Oh God Taylor, this happened', she'll be like, 'Girl, that's nothing.' Suck it up, kind of thing."

Goulding added: "I have strong female characters all around me, really cool women. My tour manager is a woman, my manager is a woman. I want to be surrounded by powerful women, not men."

Watch footage of the singer at Glastonbury here: