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

Harry Potter is awesome. — Ed Sheeran

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. — 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

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. — Ed Sheeran

One cup of food a day changes Fabian's life completely. But this morning, about a billion people on Earth - or one out of every seven - woke up and didn't even know how to fill this cup. One out of every seven people. — Josette Sheeran

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

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

With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regards hunger and malnutrition as the gravest threat to public health, and climate change threatens to further destabilise already fragile food-production systems. — Josette 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

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

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

Cause honey your soul
could never grow old
its evergreen — 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 wouldn't even dare to sing like Ed Sheeran. — Richard C. Armitage

I appreciate a lot of singer-songwriters that the normal person doesn't, but I feel like everyone thoroughly enjoys an Ed Sheeran show. — Jacob Whitesides

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 quite like American music, like The Fray - I'm a massive fan of them - and The Killers. I also like more acoustic stuff like Ed Sheeran; I like this English songwriter James Morrison and another singer called Ben Howard. — Louis Tomlinson

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

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

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

Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes - the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things - there is nothing to fall back on. — Josette Sheeran

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

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

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

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

This isn't one of those rare diseases that we don't have the solution for. We know how to fix hunger. — Josette 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

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

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

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

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

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. — 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

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

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

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

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

If any good comes out of the current famine in the Horn of Africa - amidst the pictures of mothers carrying dying babies at their shrivelled breasts and hollow-eyed children with swollen bellies and matchstick limbs - it will be galvanising the world on the need to ensure access to nutritious food for the world's most vulnerable people. — Josette 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

Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. — Josette Sheeran

You start off with a little spark, and it's whether or not you nurture that spark. You have to expand it and work on it — 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

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

It's ok to be not ok. — Ed Sheeran

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. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't ever want to be perfect,
Cause I'm a singer that you
Never want to see shirtless — Ed Sheeran

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.' — Ed Sheeran

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

I listened to a lot of Jay-Z and Kanye coming up, which would be unexpected for a boy bander like me. But I'd listen to a lot of that, and a lot of Ed Sheeran, actually. — Liam Payne

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

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

You're going to have people who are going to say 'Oh, you know like, she just writes songs about her ex-boyfriends' and I think frankly that's a very sexist angle to take. No one says that about Ed Sheeran. No one says it about Bruno Mars. They're all writing songs about their exes, their current girlfriends, their love-life, and no one raises a red flag there. — Taylor Swift

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

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

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

...I'm not you...nw dt wud b disastrous..!! — Ed Sheeran

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

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. — 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

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

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

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

I'd love to write with some people from the U.K., like Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande ... there's a very long list. — Fleur East