Quotes from Ed Sheeran

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I've always had really messy hair.

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

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

It's alright to die cause death is the only thing you haven't tried

And I will stop trying to fall in love again, and keep it a secret. It never works out anyway

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

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

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 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.

"…And if you hurt me, that's okay baby, only words bleed. Inside these pages you just hold me, and I won't ever let you go. Wait for me to come home."

"All that you are is all that i'll ever need."