Sometimes supporting is difficult because a lot of people go to a gig to see the main act and to have a beer and a chat with their mates, so a lot of the time, even if you were John Lennon, would not listen to you.
I think you're in trouble if you start chasing what you've done in the past. You always need to move on and look forward and do something new.
You have to play to your strengths, and my strength is the amount of content I create.
I can find myself in a situation where, by the time I'm releasing an album, I have the next one written. It is a bit old school.
People sometimes come up to me, and it's like they just want to capture Passenger. I feel like Pikachu. Sometimes, in the more sort of depressing moments, it feels like it's not about the music, it's just about the photo, and that really worries me.
I started busking when I was 24. I was living with Mom and Dad. I'd broken up with my girlfriend and didn't know what I was doing with my life, and I thought, 'Well, this is the last shot - I'm going busking, and let's see what happens.'
I can headline a festival and then literally, 10 minutes later, be walking around, and nobody notices.
I think I just look extremely normal, like just a sort of fairly trendy bearded bloke. Whereas Ed, you'd know it's Ed Sheeran from space, you know; you can see him from anywhere.
Its pretty humbling, because I go back to the places where I used to play for 13 people, and now there's 1,500.
I know Ed Sheeran writes with a bunch of fantastic writers, but for me, it's quite difficult to be that honest with other people.
What I love is when I play gigs, it's just me and a guitar - very simple, very direct and intimate, and you hear every lyric, and you hear every detail.
If you can write a catchy melody and a song that captures people around the world, what better thing to do? Other than 'Let Her Go,' I haven't managed to do that. And that's fine by me.
Some people expect me to have changed overnight because of one big song.
For me, it's always just about playing the song and recording it and giving it what it needs as a song.
I've got friends and my family and people who've been around for years and years and years. And those people are never in doubt: They'd be my friend whether I was a homeless dude, or I had a hit single.
I'm so lucky to not have to busk anymore, but I realized as soon as I didn't need to do it that I really missed it.
Maybe when I was a kid, when you have those crazy dreams about what music is going to be like - a string of No. 1 hits, a limo, and a fairground in your back garden - and then you start as a musician, and you realize very, very quickly, that's not how things work. So I just let go of all that stuff.
My dad's from New Jersey, so I used to go to America a lot. I feel like it is a second home.
I write wherever I am. It helps that the writing process, for me, is a lone-wolf mission.
I think some sing-songwriter music can just be very serious - after an hour and a half of it, you are exhausted - so I try and give it light and shade.
