Ed Sheeran Quotes

I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.

Paper or razor blade, never give up And just remember just to hold out more A couple years ago I couldn't just control that thought You'd find me buskin' on the street When it was cold outdoors And now I'm sweating on the stage With the sold out tours Writing love songs for the sake of it Never to make a hit

Kiss me, like you wanna be loved

Never be friends with your exes if you weren't friends with them before.

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.

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

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.

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

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

You're not her
Though I try to see you differently
I tow the line
You see, I'm searching for what used to be mine
And I saw your eyes
And I saw Alice staring back at me
So I will try to find another one who suited me as well as her

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.

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

I kind of like the way that I came up as an artist. I like experimenting.

It's too cold outside
For angels to fly
An angel will die
Covered in white
Closed eye
And hoping for a better life
This time, we'll fade out tonight
Straight down the line

I want to make the songs good. I think this is my main focus.

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

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

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.

What didn't kill me, it didn't make me stronger at all.

Granny Sheeran told me when I'm looking for a partner to fall in love with their eyes cause eyes are the only things that don't age, so if you fall in love with their eyes you'll be in love forever.

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.

Why didn't kill me it never made me stronger at all.

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

When my hair's all but gone and my memory fades
And the crowds don't remember my name
When my hands don't play the strings the same way
I know you will still love me the same.

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

And you should never cut your hair 'cos I love the way you flick it off your shoulders

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

A sense of humor is an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny.

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

Be happy, always smile, and appreciate the little thing because they can all be gone tomorrow

Kiss me like you want to be loved.

I think to be successful at anything you have to put in a hell of a lot of effort. Pick your battles. I picked music, put in a lot of effort, and it's worked.

The worst things in life come free to us

From day one, I've been prepared
With vo5 wax for my ginger hair.

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

Negativity isn't the way to go, smile more, eat some chocolate

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.

Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that.

You're wasting your time
Giving me that speech
you try to don't reach:
your smile <3
You're holding your tears
Your insides are dead
You're eating your fears,
In a cigarette.
You've waited too long,
to finally see ...
Sunshine in the rain
is as deep as the sea.

No one else is going to do it for you, if you want it bad enough then go out and do it yourself.

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

Be yourself. Embrace your quirks.

I cant tell you the key to succsess, but the key to faliure is trying to please everyone.

Just be you. That's the best advice I can give. There are seven billion people in this world and there is no one like you.

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

And with a feeling I'll forget, I'm in love now.

It's ok to be not ok.

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.

and all my walls stood tall painted blue
but i take them down .take them down and open up the door for you

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

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

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 tongue has no bones, but can break a heart.

I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that I'm ever gonna write a song that you will know who it's about.

Another day another life
Passes by just like mine
It's not complicated
Another mind
Another soul
Another body to grow old
It's not complicated

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 really don't know what's good or bad art because all the art I like people tell me is tasteless.

I've been feeling everything. From hate to love. From love to lust. From lust to truth. I guess that's how I know you.

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.

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

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

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

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

I've always had really messy hair.

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

Paint stuff and make jam. You`re good at doing that.

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.

With music, you could stick someone with a musical instrument or even not a musical instrument, get them to showcase their talent, and within 30 seconds you could tell whether they were good or not, but with acting you have to give them the right part.

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.

Harry Potter is awesome.

You are the earth that I will stand upon.
You are the words that I will sing.

Women who are into Lord of The Rings & The Hobbit are, like, the coolest people in the world

I would say, you can never do enough gigs and you can never do enough songs. Make sure that every opportunity you can, play a show and every opportunity you can, write a song.

Before I save someone else, I have to save myself.

Moments is about a girl dying and her boyfriend committing suicide because he can't live without her

I met Bill Clinton; he's a very nice guy. Yeah, Bill Clinton's cool.

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.

My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.

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

And of all these things
I'm sure of
I'm not quite certain
Of your love
And you made me scream
But then I made you cry
When I left that little bird
With its broken leg to die

Tell her that she turns my cheeks the color of my hair

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

And I don't get waves of missing you anymore, they're more like tsunami tides in my eyes

I wanna be drunk when I wake up, on the right side of the wrong bed.

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.

Success is the best revenge for anything.

Don't hold me down
I think my braces are breaking, and it's more than I can take.