I would say, you can never do enough gigs and you can never do enough songs. Make sure that every opportunity you can, play a show and every opportunity you can, write a song.

I've been feeling everything. From hate to love. From love to lust. From lust to truth. I guess that's how I know you.

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.

Why didn't kill me it never made me stronger at all.

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 used to get drunk in venues after my shows and sign the walls "Ed was here." So if you see that, it was me.

I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16 I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.