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All Quotes by author - Ed Sheeran
" As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations. "
Love Life
Life
Death
" Be original; don't be scared of being bold! "
Scared
Original
Bold
" 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. "
Song
Cry
Drive
" 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. "
Doing
World
Music
" 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. "
Clear
Personal
People
" Everyone still thinks I'm Scottish - that's totally wicked. "
Wicked
Scottish
Still
" Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically. "
Me
Influence
Growing
" Harry Potter is awesome. "
Awesome
Harry
Harry Potter
" 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. "
Wife
Work
Life
" 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. "
Say
You
Home
" I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point. "
Hair
Fact
Value
" I don't know if my songs fit in films. "
Know
Films
Songs
" I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done. "
Things
Done
Down
" 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. I feel that musicians do it their own way, write their own songs and put on a great live shows. "
Great
Feel
Think
" If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well. "
Adele
Then
Well
" 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. "
Out
Love
Listen
" 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. "
Women
Myself
Me
" I get tweets every single day going, like, 'I'm so glad you weren't on 'The X Factor.' "
Like
Going
Glad
" I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day. "
Way
Back
Huge
" I met Bill Clinton; he's a very nice guy. Yeah, Bill Clinton's cool. "
He
Guy
Met
" 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. "
Paint
Music
Know
" In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude. "
Than
Eyes
Wonder
" Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird. "
Write
Weird
Songs
" I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff. "
Doing
Men
Think
" 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. "
London
Want
Selling
" 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. "
People
Her
Daughter
" 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. "
I Am
Need
Music
" I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues. "
Still
Been
Dues
" 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. "
Trying
Think
Start
" I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that. "
Music
People
Start
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