Be original; don't be scared of being bold!
The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
Growing up, I was inspired by The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Damian Rice was a huge influence for me musically.
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.
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.
The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very accurate.
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.
If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.
I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.
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.
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.'
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?
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'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.
I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.
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.
The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.
'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack.
As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.
