![]() ![]() "I just don't want it to turn into, like, the poster boy for it, you know?" he said. ![]() He's open about that struggle, to a point. Like, I watch what I eat and I exercise a lot and I try to not binge as much." And I'll be on stage for another two hours today. I did, like, an hour-and-a-half worth of exercise this morning. "Well, I know, because I keep it in check. Sheeran spoke about his weight issues: "I keep my weight in check now because I do a lot of exercise, but I've just always been a fat bloke," he said. This is before I played music, so I didn't have anything impressive that I could offer, and I was just weird." Part of what makes the artist Ed Sheeran so successful is that he is willing to expose that human side.ĭoane asked, "Paint a picture of you as a kid?" The British musician has been selling out stadiums on his "Mathematics" tour, which just started in the U.S. You're just this egotistical maniac walking around!" But if I was that off-stage, all the time? It's horrible. You put on a cape, I guess, and go, I can entertain you, and this is good. The artist who can stand on stage in front of 110,000 people in Melbourne is not the same person that has anxiety and insecurity and depression. But that's the human you're talking to the artist right now. "The lyrics in some of these songs seem to paint another picture, of not being so comfortable in your skin?" asked Doane. "I know who I am and what I do." Ed Sheeran with correspondent Seth Doane, prior to a concert at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn. "I'm quite, like, comfortable in my skin," he said. It's a departure from the string of polished pop hits that have made him one of the world's bestselling music artists.Īt Kings Theatre, in Brooklyn, N.Y., about an hour before taking the stage for the sold-out debut of his new album, Sheeran seemed decidedly relaxed. The result is a stripped-down return to Sheeran's singer-songwriter roots. So, I'd written about, you know, the fear, or depression, or anxiety, or all of these things that had been encapsulated in that time, were what the songs ended up being about." "And then I went into this, like, really, really public high-profile court case where you're being sort of shouted at every day and called a liar and a thief and stuff. Ed Sheeran - Eyes Closed byĪt the same time, he was in the middle of an earlier copyright case, which he also won.
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