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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Ed Sheeran

People

Road

Music

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

Ed Sheeran

Want

Career

" 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 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. "

Ed Sheeran

Women

Myself

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile. "

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

Ed Sheeran

Going

Glad

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

" I've always had really messy hair. "

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

" 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'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. "

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