Ed Sheeran Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Ed Sheeran

It's cool. One of the dudes who I made my album with who I'm a very good friend of for quite a while, I lived on his sofa for a while. And he's a professional guitar player, and he played for One Direction. And so I'd wake up on a sofa sometimes with Harry from One Direction on the other sofa, and I'd kind of be like 'you alright?' — Ed Sheeran

The worst things in life come free to us — Ed Sheeran

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. — Ed Sheeran

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

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. — Ed Sheeran

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. — Ed Sheeran

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I've always had really messy hair. — Ed Sheeran

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. — Ed Sheeran

And I know these scars will bleed, but both of our hearts believe all of these stars will guide us home — Ed Sheeran

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

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. — Ed Sheeran

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

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. — Ed Sheeran

If someone tells you to change yourself, tell them to go fuck themselves. — Ed Sheeran

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. — Ed Sheeran

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. — Ed Sheeran

Kiss me like you want to be loved. — Ed Sheeran

Be a true Heart, not a follower. — Ed Sheeran

I don't know if my songs fit in films. — Ed Sheeran

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

Success is the best revenge for anything. — Ed Sheeran

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 — Ed Sheeran

Kiss me, like you wanna be loved — Ed Sheeran

Be nice to everyone, always smile, and appreciate things because it could all be gone tomorrow. — Ed Sheeran

So honey now
Take me into your loving arms
Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars
Place your head on my beating heart
I'm thinking out loud
That maybe we found love right where we are. — Ed Sheeran

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

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

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

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

Give me love like her
'Cause lately I've been waking up alone
Paint splattered teardrops on my shirt
Told you I'd let you go
And that I'll fight my corner
Maybe tonight I'll call you
After my blood turns into alcohol
No I just wanna hold you
Give a little time to me or burn this out
We'll play hide and seek to turn this around
All I want is the taste that your lips allow
My, my, my, my oh give me love — Ed Sheeran

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. — Ed Sheeran

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? — Ed Sheeran

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

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. — Ed Sheeran

People fall in love in mysterious ways. Maybe it's all part of a plan ... — Ed Sheeran

Before I save someone else, I have to save myself. — Ed Sheeran

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

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 — Ed Sheeran

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

We keep this love in a photograph
We made these memories for ourselves
Where our eyes are never closing
Hearts are never broken
And time's forever frozen still — Ed Sheeran

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. — Ed Sheeran

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 — Ed Sheeran

Be yourself. Embrace your quirks. — Ed Sheeran

I've fallen for your eyes, but they don't know me yet — Ed Sheeran

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. — Ed Sheeran

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

And they say
She's in the class A Team
Stuck in her daydream
Been that way since eighteen, but lately,
Her face seems
Slowly sinking, wasting
Crumbling like pastries
And they scream
The worst things in life come free to us
Cos we're just under the upperhand
Go mad for a couple grams
And she don't want to go outside tonight
And in a pipe she flies to the Motherland
Or sells love to another man
It's too cold outside
For angels to fly
Angels to fly — Ed Sheeran

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

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. — Ed Sheeran

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

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. — Ed Sheeran

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. — Ed Sheeran

Pizza is a circle. Pizza is my life. Pizza is the circle of life, — Ed Sheeran

Without you to hold i'll be freezing. — Ed Sheeran

I used to get drunk in venues after my shows and sign the walls "Ed was here." So if you see that, it was me. — Ed Sheeran

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

It's ok to be not ok. — Ed Sheeran

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. — Ed Sheeran

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

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

Tell her that she turns my cheeks the color of my hair — Ed Sheeran

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

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

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

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 — Ed Sheeran

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

They say I'm up and coming like I'm fucking in an elevator. — Ed Sheeran

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

If I ever have any back-up dancers, I want the penguins from Madagascar. — Ed Sheeran

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

The tongue has no bones, but can break a heart. — Ed Sheeran

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

Pain is only relevant if it still hurts. — Ed Sheeran

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. — Ed Sheeran

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. — Ed Sheeran

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

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

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. — Ed Sheeran

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. — Ed Sheeran

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 — Ed Sheeran

I think if you have someone without a sense of humor, you're less likely to be together. — Ed Sheeran

She's like cold coffee in the morning
I'm drunk off last nights whisky and coke
She'll make me shiver without warning
And make me laugh as if I'm in on the joke — Ed Sheeran

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. — Ed Sheeran

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. — Ed Sheeran

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. — Ed Sheeran

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

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

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

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

The worst things in life comes free to us — Ed Sheeran

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. — Ed Sheeran