Ellie Goulding finds it hard to maintain a relationship because of her job.
The 27-year-old singer admits it's a constant battle to keep the romance alive in her relationship with McFly musician Dougie Poynter, 26, as she's required to jet around the world for her pop career.
She explained: "I've definitely met someone. You get to know someone who makes you very happy and then you go away on tour, right when it was just getting somewhere awesome. It's not fun, but we can make it work. Love is beyond everything, beyond the universe."
The 'Beating Heart' songstress - who recently earned a BRIT Award for Best Female Solo Artist - also confessed she only discovered her passion for music after taking up guitar playing to impress a love interest.
She told Self magazine: "I started playing guitar to impress a guy, but all of a sudden I was more engrossed in the guitar than the guy and playing it became my everything. It was a big deal, because I started singing my own songs."
Ellie's road to pop stardom wasn't without its difficulties, however, as the singer was crippled by anxiety while recording her debut album 'Lights'.
She recalled: "I'd have these faux heart attacks that felt real. There was so much adrenalin."

Charlotte Crosby blames 'Geordie Shore' for her weight gain.
The 23-year-old star claims the MTV reality show is the reason for her change in figure, admitting she's gained three stone and gone up two dress sizes while filming the upcoming eighth series.
She explained: "It's hard on the show because we film for six weeks at a time and it involves constant drinking and eating pizzas and kebabs. It's nearly impossible not to put on weight."
The 'Celebrity Big Brother' winner was at "rock bottom" over her figure after taking part in the Channel 5 reality show and spent the next two months working out and eating healthily, but she's since struggled to keep the weight off.
Charlotte confessed: "I know I've been naughty with my diet, even when I'm not filming. I just love junk food. I can't drive past a McDonald's without going in for a burger and fries.
"I'd love to tone up and get back to a size 10, but it's not easy. If losing weight was easy, everyone would be able to do it."
Meanwhile, Charlotte has admitted her relationship with boyfriend Mitch Jenkins is better than ever.
She told Closer magazine: "Thing are great with Mitch. I would love to be married by the time I'm 30, but that's a fair few years off."

Jonathan Ross was shocked at how polite David and Victoria Beckham's children are.
'The Jonathan Ross Show' host has interviewed the former soccer star on numerous occasions but admits he was surprised by how well-mannered his children - Brooklyn, 15, Romeo, 12, Cruz, nine, and two-year-old Harper - were when he met them and their fashion designer mother at an event.
Quizzed whether he felt sorry for them having to cope with their parents' fame, he said: "No, I don't, because Victoria and David are such cool people and such good parents. I met them out years ago with their kids and you couldn't have met a more polite, sweet-natured bunch of children."
The 53-year-old TV star also explained that while he can understand why people would think the kids are spoilt, he doesn't think there's any reason why they'd be impolite.
He told heat magazine: "They were so well-mannered and, oddly, I don't think people would expect that, but they've raised those kids great."
One young star Jonathan isn't impressed by, however, is Justin Bieber, who was recently forced to apologise after videos emerged of him telling racist jokes as a teenager.
Jonathan said: "I like Justin - he's a nice guy and he's clearly a very talented young man. But at the moment someone needs to tell him to f***ing calm down, you know, because he's acting like a goon."

Skrillex wants to work with Kasabian.
The DJ is a big fan of the Glastonbury headliners and is hoping he can join forces with the 'Fire' hitmakers for a musical collaboration in future.
He told NME: "I love Kasabian. I'd work with them for sure, if it was natural and there was a vibe. Who knows what it would sound like - you never plan it."
Skrillex is playing The Other Stage at the Worthy Farm festival tonight (27.06.14) and revealed he will also be performing two extra sets following his 10.30pm headline slot.
The music producer is most looking forward to seeing controversial Saturday night (28.06.14) headliners, thrash metal band Metallica, and thinks the crowd is going to have a change of heart when they witness the rockers' amazing stage presence firsthand.
He enthused: "I definitely want to see Metallica - they're going to f**king kill it. What do you think? It's Metallica.
"Between the times I've played with Metallica and even when I was young, just seeing them, they're so good live. The crowds are always crazy and they're so cool."

50 Cent has joined the cast of 'Southpaw'.
The 'Candy Shop' rapper will star alongside Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest Whitaker, Lupita Nyong'o and Rachel McAdams in the boxing movie, in which he will play a promoter who is part of Gyllenhaal's central character's entourage.
50 has already begun filming under director Antoine Fuqua in Pittsburgh, the New York Post's Page Six column reports.
The film centres on the welterweight boxer as he struggles to improve his career as he battles with substance abuse.
Nyong'o's social worker character will care for the sportsman's daughter and her profession will eventually lead her to become involved in the life of the fallen boxer.
Fuqua recently spoke about his passion for the movie, and how delighted it was when it changed studios and he was able to sign on to direct.
He said: "'Southpaw' was with DreamWorks, that's when I got the job.
"I have a great passion for that project, and I met with [Steven] Spielberg about it, and I loved it. The timing of that didn't work up. And I spoke with Harvey Weinstein, and he loved it from the beginning. So I said, let's do it. So he went over and talked to them, and Harvey has it now."

Courteney Cox is engaged to Johnny McDaid.
The 'Friends' actress and her Snow Patrol beau shared the good news with their fans by each posting on Twitter "I'm engaged to him!" and "I'm engaged to her!" on Thursday night (26.06.14).
The lovebirds have only been dating for six months were first spotted out together in December when they attended Courteney's close pal Jennifer Aniston's holiday party in Los Angeles.
Suspicions were raised that things were moving very fast when the couple's friend Ed Sheeran - who introduced them to one another - spilled the beans about them moving in together in April.
Johnny, 37, and his band collaborated with the 'Cougar Town' star on her directorial debut, 'Just Before I Go', and he opened up about his relationship with the actress for the first time at the film's premiere.
The Northern Irish guitarist gushed: "Courteney is the most completely confident person I've ever met - at everything. She gets music. She gets art. She gets the way a scene gets constructed, the way dialogue works.
"And she puts it all together in her mind and then explains it to the world and makes movies that make people laugh and cry, squirm and jump, all those things."
Courteney, who has just celebrated her 50th birthday, finalized her divorce from her ex-husband David Arquette, in May 2013 just before their 14th wedding anniversary.
They remain on good terms and share custody of their 10-year-old daughter Coco.

Metallica claim they won't perform into their 70s like The Rolling Stones.
The heavy metal band - made up of James Hetfield, Rob Trujillo, Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett - are in their 50s and admit their intense sets take a massive toll on their bodies.
Kirk said: "I saw the Stones last year in San Francisco and I thought they played fucking great, and for a bunch of guys who are 70-plus, it was a pretty amazing feat.
"I don't know if we can do what we do when we're in our 70s, because playing one of our songs is equal to playing eight Stones songs in terms of physical energy and intensity."
The 51-year-old guitarist hopes the band can work out a plan which means they can play for the next 20 years but he's not very hopeful.
He said: "I personally think we have another 10. Maybe that's one album, maybe that's two albums, I don't know."
The band claim there has been a lot of talk about how they need to "get our sh*t together" and release another record, the follow-up to 2008's 'Death Magnetic', but admit fans will have to wait a while longer.
Kirk said: "Getting the space and time to do it is what we need. We've already been writing, but there's still a lot to go.
"After this summer we're gonna work on it some more and see how it shapes up, but yeah... 2015, 2016, maybe? It's a f***ing long time, man."
Metallica will headline this year's Glastonbury festival with Kasabian and Arcade Fire.

Joe Manganiello has been thinking up new stripping routines for 'Magic Mike XXL'.
The 'True Blood' star claims he's already preparing to reprise his role as "Big D**k Richie" in the upcoming sequel and thinks the knowledge he's gained from directing and producing reality film 'La Bare' has helped him to think of new ideas.
Speaking about his involvement in the film, which goes behind the scenes of one the world's most popular male strip clubs, he said: "I did have my producer/director hat on for the past year and a half with 'La Bare'.
"At some point during the summer, I'm going to have to get back into it [his character]. I'm starting to think about new routines."
The 37-year-old hunk claimed 'Magic Mike XXL' director Greg Jacobs and writer Channing Tatum - who also stars in the movie, based on his life as a stripper before becoming a successful actor - have asked for his advice.
He told Latino Review: "They certainly asked for my help and my input now. Certainly, now I'm a male entertainment expert.
"I have a wealth of information. I definitely will have more of an input on what my character gets to do on this one. It'll be a lot of fun and it'll be great."

Don Johnson says losing his virginity at 12 years old was "nice".
The 65-year-old actor slept with his babysitter, who was 16, when he was young and though he isn't especially proud of having sex so young, he doesn't regret his first time.
He said: "I don't wear it as a badge of honour, but she was a very lovely 16-year-old girl and we were both young, both experimenting successfully. And it was nice."
The 'Cold in July' actor also admitted during his periods of excess in the 1980s he used to "have a lot of fun" with huge groups of models.
He told The Times newspaper: "There were five modelling agencies in Miami, and I would invite five models from each agency and three or four male friends. And, um... We had a lot of fun."
And the former 'Miami Vice' actor was stunned when he was first invited to "super exclusive" parties in Florida - and found state officials carried "better" drugs than he did.
Don - who is now sober - said: "There were politicians, state senators, drug dealers, police and the best-looking hookers in the business.
"And at first I was like, 'Oh, so everybody knows everybody?' For years I'd been concerned about carrying drugs around, and all these motherf*****s, police included, are carrying drugs around? And their drugs are better than mine? Hahahaha."

Melissa McCarthy's children are into "goofy things" and like dressing up in her clothes.
The 43-year-old actress admits her daughters Vivian, seven, and Georgette, four, who she has with her husband Ben Falcone, love being stupid and she always catches them raiding her wardrobe for her high heels.
During an appearance on 'Live with Kelly and Michael', she said: "The kids are good, [they're] seven and four, they're just into goofy things, a lot of heels. A lot of high heels, a lot of getting into my closet. They come out shuffling [in my heels] and they're like, 'Why don't you wear these,' and I'm going to like Trader Joes and they're in these massive heels.
"They're in them constantly. My four year old came out in huge sunglasses, big heels, had a purse on her elbow and was like, 'I can't talk right now I'm going to China.' And for like an hour-and-a-half she wouldn't really talk to us, she was just busy putting a calculator in her purse."
The 'Bridesmaid' star admits her children couldn't be more different to each other because Vivian has Ben's personality and is often found in deep thought, whereas Georgette shares similar traits to Melissa.
She explained: "The oldest one looks like me and acts like Ben, very mellow. If you find her in a room, she's like, 'Oh I was just sitting here thinking about kindness'. And the little one looks like Ben but is more like me. When you walk in a room, she's usually on top of something with like a sickle and a punching bag just like, 'Someone's going to get it.' "

Keri Russell spends all her free time with Matthew Rhys.
The 38-year-old actress, who announced her split from husband Shane Deary after almost seven years of marriage in December, started dating her 'The Americans' co-star earlier this year, and the couple are now inseparable.
A source close to the duo told Us Weekly magazine: "They try to be discreet but spend all their time together."
The brunette beauty, who has son River, six, and daughter Willa, two, with her estranged husband, and the 39-year-old British actor are already very serious about each other, but "are taking it slow."
The insider added: "They're in love and know this is for real!"
Speculation first began swirling in January that the former 'Felicity' star was dating Matthew after they were spotted furniture shopping together in Brooklyn Heights, New York City.
Matthew later admitted that he didn't mind being linked to Keri, saying: "That's the best [rumour] I love."
The brunette beauty announced her split from building contractor Shane before Christmas but a source previously revealed they separated last summer.

Vanessa Hudgens often works out twice a day.
The 25-year-old actress is obsessed with exercise and admits she feels very guilty if she misses a session in the gym.
The 'Spring Breakers' star said: "I try to exercise twice a day. If I didn't work out yesterday or today, I'm like, 'Oh, no!'
"I love being active."
The brunette beauty, who is dating 'The Carrie Diaries' star Austin Butler, likes to challenge herself by mixing up her activities.
Asked about her favourite ways to stay fit, she told Us Weekly magazine: "Hiking, yoga, Pilates, spinning, dancing and aerial yoga."
She added: "Staying fit is just fun."
Vanessa gained 15 pounds for to play a pregnant teenager in the movie, 'Gimme Shelter,' last year and previously admitted that while she had no problem putting the weight on, it made her feel very insecure.
She said: "I didn't feel comfortable in my body because I gained this weight."
She later added: "Getting it off was the more difficult part. It was a lot of exercise...Just doing a lot of cardio, a lot of yoga and just really anything active."