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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I've always had really messy hair. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Harry Potter is awesome. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "