Ed Sheeran Quotations

I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.

I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.

I want to have a career that evolves as I go on.

I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.

Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you weren't friends before you started dating, then what do you go back to, really?

I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.

I was on some TV shows with Lady Gaga the other week, and you could see the difference in reaction between her fans and my fans outside. She comes out, and she looks like a star, and the reaction is just tears, crying, people going, 'Oh my God, Oh my God.' My fans are like: 'Alright, Ed.'

I've had years of teasing about my red hair, but I definitely think it toughened me up. If you're ginger, you end up pretty quick-witted.

I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.

Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

Be original; don't be scared of being bold!

Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.

As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

But once you've made a song and you put it out there, you don't own it anymore. The public own it. It's their song. It might be their song that they wake up to, or their song they have a shower to, or their song that they drive home to or their song they cry to, scream to, have babies to, have weddings to - like, it isn't your song anymore.

Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that.

I think YouTube has destroyed the genre barrier. People can be into Justin Bieber and Eminem at the same time. It's a good thing.

Some of my tattoos are a bit silly, but I know where and what time I got them.

The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile. Always appreciate things, because [they] could be gone tomorrow.

I'd like to say that I'm a rock star, but I'm not - I'm honestly more of a relationship kind of guy. I'm a guy you could take home to meet your mum rather than a guy your mum wouldn't like.

The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.

I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.

The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing.

'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack.

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing. Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.

I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.

The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.

I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.

I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the interesting ones to talk about. I played some pretty random ones in L.A. I signed to play all-R&B nights or an all-comedy night where I'd be the only white person there. They were fun.

Everyone still thinks I'm Scottish - that's totally wicked.

I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there are definitely things that set me apart from other kinds of artists.

Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.

You can't call me a Twitter phenomenon or a YouTube one. These things are useful, but so's hard gigging. One year I did 311 shows. I did six in one night alone.

Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.

Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.

I met Bill Clinton; he's a very nice guy. Yeah, Bill Clinton's cool.

If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.

I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.

The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very accurate.

Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.

I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.

I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol.

I get tweets every single day going, like, 'I'm so glad you weren't on 'The X Factor.''

I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.

If I can put on my album in a car or on my headphones and listen to the whole thing and love it, that's what I'm going to be happy putting out there.

In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.

I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.

I would love to get a Moonman! I'd put it next to my other awards. I don't have a cabinet right now; they're just kind of all around my flat, one next to the TV, one in the bedroom. So, I'd have to build a cabinet.

I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illegally and legally, but I wouldn't be here today without the Internet, so I can't speak out against it.

My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.

The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.

I'd like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal things rather that constantly being on tour. Because I'm young now and I haven't really got a social life. This is all I do. It's the best job in the world, but I'll get to the point where there's more to life than work.

I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that I'm ever gonna write a song that you will know who it's about.

My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.

There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.

I don't know if my songs fit in films.

For me, Spotify is not even a necessary evil. It helps me do what I want to do.

When my hair's all but gone and my memory fades And the crowds don't remember my name When my hands don't play the strings the same way I know you will still love me the same.

And I know these scars will bleed, but both of our hearts believe all of these stars will guide us home

It's cool. One of the dudes who I made my album with who I'm a very good friend of for quite a while, I lived on his sofa for a while. And he's a professional guitar player, and he played for One Direction. And so I'd wake up on a sofa sometimes with Harry from One Direction on the other sofa, and I'd kind of be like 'you alright?'

My uncle always said, ‘Hurry slowly.’ I guess [it means] have the intensity of love but don’t rush into it. Have the full feeling but take it slow. Ease into it.

I don't ever want to be perfect, Cause I'm a singer that you Never want to see shirtless

If love what you can't have, then you have to love what you've got

If I ever have any back-up dancers, I want the penguins from Madagascar.

I've been feeling everything. From hate to love. From love to lust. From lust to truth. I guess that's how I know you.

I would say, you can never do enough gigs and you can never do enough songs. Make sure that every opportunity you can, play a show and every opportunity you can, write a song.

I kind of like the way that I came up as an artist. I like experimenting.

No one else is going to do it for you, if you want it bad enough then go out and do it yourself.

A sense of humor is an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny.

We keep this love in a photograph We made these memories for ourselves Where our eyes are never closing Hearts are never broken And time's forever frozen still

I used to get drunk in venues after my shows and sign the walls "Ed was here." So if you see that, it was me.

With music, you could stick someone with a musical instrument or even not a musical instrument, get them to showcase their talent, and within 30 seconds you could tell whether they were good or not, but with acting you have to give them the right part.

Paper or razor blade, never give up And just remember just to hold out more A couple years ago I couldn't just control that thought You'd find me buskin' on the street When it was cold outdoors And now I'm sweating on the stage With the sold out tours Writing love songs for the sake of it Never to make a hit

I really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.

Without you to hold i'll be freezing.

I know you'll never love me like you used to.

Why didn't kill me it never made me stronger at all.

I wanna be drunk when I wake up, on the right side of the wrong bed.

Granny Sheeran told me when I'm looking for a partner to fall in love with their eyes cause eyes are the only things that don't age, so if you fall in love with their eyes you'll be in love forever.

I think to be successful at anything you have to put in a hell of a lot of effort. Pick your battles. I picked music, put in a lot of effort, and it's worked.

I'll be drunk again to feel a little love.

I don't kind of want to be known as a one-trick pony who just does the adult-alternative song once a year that makes it onto the radio and people sort of think it's nice.

I want to make the songs good. I think this is my main focus.

The tongue has no bones, but can break a heart.

Success is the best revenge for anything. Keep ya head down and work hard to achieve.

Never be friends with your exes if you weren't friends with them before.

I think if you have someone without a sense of humor, you're less likely to be together.

I've fallen for your eyes, but they don't know me yet

Harry Potter is awesome.

And you should never cut your hair 'cos I love the way you flick it off your shoulders

Kiss me like you want to be loved.

Be a true Heart, not a follower.

And they say She's in the class A Team Stuck in her daydream Been that way since eighteen, but lately, Her face seems Slowly sinking, wasting Crumbling like pastries And they scream The worst things in life come free to us Cos we're just under the upperhand Go mad for a couple grams And she don't want to go outside tonight And in a pipe she flies to the Motherland Or sells love to another man It's too cold outside For angels to fly Angels to fly

Moments is about a girl dying and her boyfriend committing suicide because he can't live without her

Pizza is a circle. Pizza is my life. Pizza is the circle of life,

People fall in love in mysterious ways. Maybe it's all part of a plan....

It's too cold outside for angels to fly.

Be yourself. Embrace your quirks.

Negativity isn't the way to go, smile more, eat some chocolate

The worst things in life comes free to us