Edward Christopher Sheeran is an English singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor. Ed Sheeran’s debut album, + (pronounced “plus”), was released in September 2011 and topped the UK Albums Chart. It contained his first hit single “The A Team”. In 2012, Sheeran won the Brit Awards for Best British Male Solo Artist and British Breakthrough Act. Sheeran’s second studio album, × (pronounced “multiply”), was released in June 2014. It was named the second-best-selling album worldwide of 2015.
× won Album of the Year at the 2015 Brit Awards, and he received the Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. A single from ×, “Thinking Out Loud”, earned him the 2016 Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance. Sheeran’s third album, ÷ (pronounced “divide”), was released in March 2017, and was the best-selling album worldwide of 2017.
The first two singles from the album, “Shape of You” and “Castle on the Hill”, broke records in a number of countries by debuting in the top two positions of the charts. He also became the first artist to have two songs debut in the US top 10 in the same week. Released in 2019, his fourth studio album No.6 Collaborations Project debuted at number one in most major markets, and spawned three UK number one singles, “I Don’t Care”, “Beautiful People” and “Take Me Back to London”.
Sheeran has sold more than 150 million records worldwide, making him one of the world’s best-selling music artists. In December 2019, the Official Charts Company named him artist of the decade, with the most combined success in the UK album and singles charts in the 2010s. An alumnus of the National Youth Theatre in London, as an actor Sheeran’s roles include appearing in the 2019 film Yesterday.
Some of the best quotes from Ed Sheeran are listed below.
- “A heart that’s broke is a heart that’s been loved.” – Ed Sheeran
- “A tongue has no bones, but it can break a heart.” – Ed Sheeran
- “And I will stop trying to fall in love again, and keep it a secret. It never works out anyway.” – Ed Sheeran
- “As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people’s situations.” – Ed Sheeran
- “Be nice to everyone, always smile, and appreciate things because it could all be gone tomorrow.” – Ed Sheeran
- “Be original; don’t be scared of being bold!” – Ed Sheeran
- “Before I save someone else, I have to save myself.” – Ed Sheeran
- “Being ginger can seem like a bad thing when you are young, but as a musician, it has been my saving grace, because if you see a ginger kid on TV and there is only one messy-haired ginger kid who plays guitar, it is very easy to find them on YouTube.” – Ed Sheeran
- “But once you’ve made a song and you put it out there, you don’t own it anymore. The public owns 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
- “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
- “Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, then it’s not the end.” – 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
- “I can’t tell you the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.”– Ed Sheeran
- “I don’t really do that whole ‘single life’ thing. I’m kind of heads down and get things done.” – 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 great live shows.” – Ed Sheeran
- “I keep attracting ginger dudes who want to chat to me about their problems with being Ginger. It’s a bit weird.” – 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 think the music I’ve created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.” – Ed Sheeran
- “I want to have a career that evolves as I go on.” – 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
- “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
- “I’ll be taking my time, spending my life falling deeper in love with you so tell me that you love me too.” – Ed Sheeran
- “I’m quite arty. I didn’t know whether to become an artist or musician but I realized I could paint with music. All my songs have colors.” – Ed Sheeran
- “I’ve always had really messy hair.” – 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
- “It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing.” – Ed Sheeran
- “It’s alright to cry, tears remind you you’re alive.” – Ed Sheeran
- “Just be you. That’s the best advice I can give.” – Ed Sheeran
- “Love can change the world in a moment, but what do I know?” – 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
- “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
- “My songs are where my heart is.” – Ed Sheeran
- “Negativity isn’t the way to go. Smile more, eat some chocolate.” – Ed Sheeran
- “No one’s perfect. You make mistakes all the time. The key is to learn from them and not make the same mistakes again.” – Ed Sheeran
- “Pain is only relevant if it still hurts.” – Ed Sheeran
- “Please be real with yourself… The only person you can succeed at being is yourself, don’t put on a different persona in front of people, we can see through it… Be you.”– Ed Sheeran
- “Quirks might seem weird when you’re young, but they make you stand out when you’re older and that’s important.” – Ed Sheeran
- “Someone told me, ‘Always say what’s on your mind’ And I am only being honest with you, I get lonely and make mistakes from time to time.” – Ed Sheeran
- “Success is the best revenge for anything.” – Ed Sheeran
- “Tell her that she turns my cheeks the color of my hair.” – Ed Sheeran
- “The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.” – Ed Sheeran
- “The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.” – 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
- “The worst things in life come free to us.” – Ed Sheeran
- “There are a lot of ginger dudes in England who are using me. That’s why I’m not hating on it. You know what, we’re finally getting laid! This is a good thing.” – 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
- “What didn’t kill me, it didn’t make me stronger at all.” – Ed 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
- “You want to make sure that someone is there for you when you really need them, and not just there for you for the good times.” – Ed Sheeran
- “You want to make sure that someone is there for you when you really need them, and not just there for you for the good times.” – Ed Sheeran
