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" 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. "

Ed Sheeran

Love

Heard

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Ed Sheeran

Want

Career

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

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

Ed Sheeran

You

Twilight

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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 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. "

" 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. "

Ed Sheeran

Year

Alone

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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