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.’
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.
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 want to have a career that evolves as I go on.
I don’t really do that whole ‘single life’ thing. I’m kind of heads down and get things done.
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?
I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.
I don’t know if my songs fit in films.
The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.
The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
In my eyes, there’s no one better than Stevie Wonder. He’s a top dude.
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.
I think I’ve been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.
I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It’s a stripper’s move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn’t want her twerking.
I met Bill Clinton; he’s a very nice guy. Yeah, Bill Clinton’s cool.
The whole ‘studly womaniser’ thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title – it’s just not very accurate.
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.
I think if you have someone without a sense of humor, you’re less likely to be together.
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.