Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Edward Christopher "Ed" Sheeran is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and occasional actor. He was born in Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire and raised in Framlingham, Suffolk. He dropped out of school at 16, and moved to London the following year, in 2008, to pursue a career in music. In early 2011, Sheeran independently released the extended play, No. 5 Collaborations Project, which caught the attention of Elton John and Jamie Foxx. After signing with Asylum Records, his debut album, +, was...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth17 February 1991
CityHebden Bridge, England
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.
And I know these scars will bleed, but both of our hearts believe all of these stars will guide us home
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?'
If I ever have any back-up dancers, I want the penguins from Madagascar.
Everyone still thinks I'm Scottish - that's totally wicked.
I don't know if my songs fit in films.
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.
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 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.
I kind of like the way that I came up as an artist. I like experimenting.
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.
No one else is going to do it for you, if you want it bad enough then go out and do it yourself.
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.
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