Ed Sheeran
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Ed Sheeran: You Either Love Me or Hate Me
eventually there was so much shit in the house that actually just having it all in one place like even just like meeting this football player and having a shirt signed and having it on the wall like it's better having it there than in the bedroom you know absolutely she's like take all of your shit it's all and put it in the basically i have because there's like a tunnel to it um and in the tunnel there's like i've built like a a listening room and there's a cinema and that's kind of my i'd say it's less of like a man cave and more of a man catacombs um
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uh i'm a huge hook fan so i bought uh robin williams's pan costume and rufio sword and then julia roberts's tinkerbell costume so probably those two how much above six figures no no no not on those not on those i have done on props before like i bought c-3po that was not cheap Do you regret it? No. I do it every birthday. I just buy one proper year for my birthday.
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Patrick's Day. And I flew the folk band that played with me on Galway Girl. I flew them over and they learned all my songs. And we basically did a trad jam of, it was like a set, but it was like with an Irish trad band.
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It's like the thing that I look forward to. I think all year, what am I going to get? There's always a movie prop auction around that time. And yeah, I choose one thing.
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uh yeah because the auction's coming up i'm trying to get the george clooney batman costume because everyone doesn't like the batman and robin film but that was my first batman film that i saw so i have a real like um draw to that movie i bought the um alicia silverstone batwoman costume from that so it'd be like a matching we so are you going to these auctions it's online it's online you're like an ebay guy huh yeah but i spend a lot of time in hotel rooms i
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My main hobby outside of music is movies. I do music and when I'm not doing music, because it's shows and studio and I do that pretty much like 95% of the time when I'm not like doing home family stuff. And then if I've got spare moments, I watch movies. So those are like my two passions.
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Goodfellas, Cool Runnings, and this would be like, I don't know if everyone would see this, but I still watch it every single year. I think Love Actually is a masterpiece. Every single year I watch that, and every single year I'm not tired of it. And those three films I could watch any time, any place. I'm reading Goodfellas again at the moment. That movie, just, I can't ever tire of it.
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Oh, Cool Runnings is... It's a phenomenal film. It's really, really worth watching. It's kind of humorous, heartwarming. It's not like the Hollywood ending where I'm not going to ruin it for you, but it's a really, really perfect movie.
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Yeah. I'm glad this isn't going to come out within the next two weeks, is it?
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I would go up to six figures for it, I think.
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That's like history, though. It's history. It's like, you know, someone bought the red slippers, Dorothy's red slippers. But they spent like, I think they spent like 25 mil on them.
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Yeah, it's called the Lancaster Lock. It's basically my mum's maiden name and my wife's mum's maiden name because they both... Yeah, I think I wanted to sort of immortalise their maiden names. I feel like even more getting married and having daughters, it's sort of like I want to preserve... It's kind of weird, like the old tradition of taking names away and having names there.
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No, that was in Nashville. That was in Nashville.
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You know, our daughters have both of our last names and I sort of wanted to preserve my mum's maiden name and my wife's mum's maiden name in something that was permanent.
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Yeah, I've been around. I kind of, this whole... Entering into this album campaign, I was just like, I don't want to do anything that I've done before. And for me, all of that sort of stuff is so fun. It's like way more fun than like organizing a proper gig that's ticketed. If you just turn up somewhere and play, you still play the gig, but it's just chaotic and fun.
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That's how I grew up, though. Because that's the only thing that I knew. Like my mum had my dad's name and, you know, I come from a very large Irish Catholic family. Sheeran was the name. And I think it wasn't until getting married and having daughters where your perception of it shifts. I think you have to like, you can't just be born and just believe things.
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You have to kind of experience and be brought over. And now I very, very much believe that that should be the case that... you should obviously keep both identities when you have children.
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Yeah, but I think if you're throwing a rager, it should be like five people. I think that's like, or like 12. Five to 12 people is a really good night. I do, we built a chapel on our land and we do like Christmas carols there. And then after the Christmas carols, everyone comes in for like mulled wine and mince pies and stuff.
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That's like, we can hold 40 or 50 people, but it's like a crammed space in that area.
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No, we do. Do you know it's... I know it sounds weird to like sort of build an infrastructure on your property where you don't have to leave it. But I feel like so much that...
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there's certain moments you just want to spend with your family and not have someone filming you while you're doing it especially like whether it's something like that at Christmas or whether it's a memorial or there's just certain like intimate moments you want to have Like that.
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But I let other people enjoy it. Like my security guy got married in my chapel and that was like really lovely. Really, really lovely. So the chapel is like...
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it's there yeah like sign up if you want to get married you come by um which celebrity would you like to invite to the garden pub uh i had a glimpse of what a night with post malone would be like with um we hung out in new york at global citizen festival i actually bought him a um I found this company that do the huge vinyl dinosaurs that you get at zoos.
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You know, the ones that are like the size of buildings.
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So I've sent him a T-Rex because we were sort of joking about it. And he was just like, yeah, yeah, send me one whenever I live here. And it's done. And it's going to arrive. And he's going to get this fucking huge T-Rex that is just going to And I've only met him once, so he's just going to be like, what the fuck?
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But I feel like because I hung out with him for that amount of time and I can sense the kind of person he is, I think he's going to appreciate it. But I think he would be the hang. I'd want a couple of days hang with him.
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I've never said this publicly, but I'm going to say it. I was playing a city in Europe. This is like 2018, 2019. And my best mate was out with his mom and his sister. And we sort of started drinking espresso, not espresso. What are they called? Cafe Patron.
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And then I went to bed and I got up in the middle of the night to have a pee and I was sleeping naked and I walked out to have a pee and then I hear a door close and I open my eyes and I'm in the corridor, naked, no key, it's like 4am and I'm like, oh my god.
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what am i gonna do and i'm kind of looking around and as i look around it's like cctv cctv and i'm like oh this is not good and uh there was like room so someone had had room service and i went to go and get the uh napkin and i put the napkin on clicked uh the lift went down to the lobby bear in mind it's like 4 a.m there's like people working in the hotel i'll just kind of walk with this thing and i was like please can you let me back in my room
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And please, can you not tell anyone about this? And my security guard went to go and wipe all the CCTV. Well, he told me he wiped it. He might have kept it for blackmail later on down the line. But yeah, I think that's the most embarrassing thing that I've ever done.
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It was very much sort of like you could see their eyes widen and be like, and me going, please just don't ask and don't tell anyone.
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I feel like that's when you actually connect with people. I find it so fun. I like the balance of having...
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I went back to bed, yeah, because I was like, nothing's going to change the fact that that just happened. I messaged my security guard and I was like, please, can you wipe the footage?
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But yeah, I was sort of like, nothing's going to change. And also, it's a very human mistake to happen.
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Everyone could do that. I definitely, I then bought pajamas and I started sleeping in pajamas.
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Do you know what? I'm sober at the moment. So that's definitely like helping the not doing stupid shit.
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Good. I just, you know, I saw the schedule for this year of album release. And I was like, because I'm basically I'm flying. All around the world and then flying home and being dad as well. And I'm like, I don't want to then add on an extra layer of tiredness on that. So I'm just going to not drink and be very focused and energized, I guess.
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all of it like even when i was on tour in the states last time but i was doing a theater on a friday and then a stadium on a saturday and i loved the juxtaposition of the two and i think being a performer it no matter what you do in life if you do the same thing all the time eventually it's going to get tiresome even if it's playing a stadium show the whole time which is obviously like a really really amazing thing to do but i when people i talk to people about it and they ask about doing these pop-up shows to 20 30 people i'm like you wouldn't eat a burger breakfast lunch and dinner every single day
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underrated thing that when you're going so hard with work that you think that you need like a drink at the end of the night to relax you but then i've been feeling it recently where i'm like i just wake up feeling like fucking shit like there's a different way to relax so i get i get in and i'll put on a movie and actually that sort of does the job because you kind of relax into the movie and then by the end of it you can just go to sleep rather than being because i also find when you drink you don't really have a proper sleep anyway because there's so much sugar in your body
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I'm not going to be sober for forever, but I've definitely changed my relationship with alcohol. Cause I used to drink every single day, every single day. Not like I'm not a spirits guy and I'm not really, I kind of do beer a little bit, but I'm more of like a wine guy at the end of the day.
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but now I'm not doing that me and my wife do date night once a week and I feel like that'll be the time when I do start drinking to we'll do a bottle of wine together that night rather than like every single night having to have something I love that for you
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I don't really know because I feel like all the misconceptions that are about me, they're people that don't know me. So I think that there's lots of things flying about the internet. There's like rumors that also like,
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really gather steam because I think that people want to believe them there's all these things that like come out and unless I actually come out and go these things didn't actually happen people just run with it because I think they like they people love negative stories like that and um yeah I think that uh there's just I think being in the public eye there's just always always a lot of misconceptions about you but I think unless someone actually knows me as a person they can't pass judgment on who I am
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This has been my life since I was 19. So I think that the first five years, six years of my life, no, I really didn't. And I really struggled with it. Relationships wise, not just romantic, but just relationships in my life, friendships, family, everything like it, just everything shifted. And I know people go,
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um you know when someone becomes famous they change that this but genuinely I didn't for the first three years I was I was exactly the same person and everyone around me changed just in their way of treating me or acting or talking or like leaking things or doing this or doing this and then and then you start changing and you become a paranoid fucker and then it all starts sort of like shifting so I think at the beginning it's that transitional period where you're just trying to work out
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how who you are and whether I am my stage name and that's me the whole time and I'm pop star and I'm this or whether there's like two human beings and I can be you know a son to my mum without having to be a pop star or like a husband without having to be a pop star and then sort of like separating the two and I think over the last
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Since COVID really, being at home and separating the two and knowing that it's quite, it's a really, really fun job to dip into. You know, it's really fun. It's really fun to be a pop star for the night and go to the Grammys and sort of be like, wow, look at everyone. But then it's important to be able to go home and be like a regular human being.
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And I think that's why I don't live in Los Angeles because I don't think I'd ever switch off. I think I'd always just be pop star.
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And especially because I grew up with her, there's always just a lens of Suffolk over it of just like, come on, man. Like I tried to build a bowling alley in our backyard and she was just like, come on, man. You don't need that.
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I think I'll become good at bowling. I think as long as it's not on the property, I think she's, I think she just wants to, she doesn't want our kids growing up and it being like, you know, the Richie Rich house where there's literally McDonald's in them. Have you seen Richie Rich?
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No one knows I have a letterboxd, but I do have a letterboxd.
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Well, I just review movies online for myself just to log them, just to see what I've watched. I have no followers on it. Like, it's literally I've just logged the films that I watch.
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No one reads it, though. It's just for me to, like, log it.
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I guess they'll find out now. I think it's more fun for people to find it. I watch Gladiator 2 and there's a character in it who's like the really crazy emperor that has syphilis.
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Apparently based on me. So that is my profile picture. Is that emperor? Wait, what? I saw an interview with him where he's like Ridley Scott based his character on me. I don't know if I'm offended, you know, or very complimented. Thank you very much. Where was my call?
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I think with that song, it kind of just all felt really, really fun and immersive. I think that's where the ocean thing came from, is just like immersing yourself in the night. That line definitely had some people in my circle being like, do you really need to say drown? I don't know. It sounded good. Sometimes that's all that counts in the studio is does it sound good.
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Aziz Am is Farsi, and it means my dear or my love. The guy that I made the tune with, Ilya, is Persian, and we were literally in the studio. We were just trying different things, and he was like, would you ever do something Persian-influenced? And he just sort of led me on this journey. I've got footage of the moment where he's like, I'm like, what's my love in Farsi? And he's like, oh, Aziz Am.
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And I was like, that's a fucking cool word. It's a really fun song.
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Uh, I started employing like my best mate on tour. Um, so I kind of, I went through, um, periods of time on tour, like I'm a solo artist and I don't have a band. So, and I'm very much like, I would just tour on my, I would obviously like, I have a crew, but my crew were like 50 year old blokes. So there's only so much, um,
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bonding you can do I think and I got intensely lonely and burnt out and yeah I remember I spoke to my mate she's she grew up opposite me Lauren and she was she just left university she now like works in tour management on my tour and stuff and has been doing it for 10 10 years but she was very much I guess worried about me and just came on tour started working on tour and then we were in New York and her sister was living with Cherry and
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And I had had, you know, moments with Cherry when we were younger. And I guess like we just kind of reconnected and picked up where we left off, I guess. And it's one of those things where I wasn't really expecting it to happen. I kind of just got out of a relationship.
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i was on tour for god knows how long and it just felt really i was sort of like unless i do this it i will always regret it so i just sort of jumped in and yeah best decision i think i've made you have two daughters how has your life changed since becoming a father very dramatically actually very dramatically i think just um
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I mean, even just not being a fucking maniac with drinking drugs or smoking or, you know, I exercise now, never exercised before. I get up in the morning. Rather, I used to sleep till like 4 p.m. Like it really has changed dramatically. And just in the way that I'm home more and my work schedule is based around them rather than based around me.
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Yeah, of course. It's usually Moana. like it's usually just me singing moana yeah they like i have a song on the album called sapphire that they love so it's either moana or sapphire moana by the way top fucking tier disney music oh top tier absolutely do you just like walk around the house and sing that to them yeah All the songs, actually. And Moana, too, actually.
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When I went to go and see it, I wasn't, like, straight away enamored with the songs. And now those songs are my favorite songs, too.
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Putting me on the spot here. Probably the Chi Hu song.
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Can I get a Chi Hu? That one. Who are you? Who are you gonna be? Gonna make some history. Come on, Moana. Go get your destiny. Mate, my children fucking love it.
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And they've got the we went to go and see Mufasa and they love the brother song. Oh, coincidentally, same writer as Moana one. So it's all Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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Yeah, I'm down. Do you know what I like is culture? And I feel like a rodeo is culture. I like going to countries and feeling... I lived in Nashville for a couple of years. I lived in New York for a year. I've lived in LA on and off.
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Yep. I have a... My idea was because the album is so broad, I didn't want to just be like, here's the single, here's the album. So there's music coming every sort of like two, three weeks. So there's Azzy Zam now, there's a song called Old Phone that comes out in a couple of weeks. And then after that, there's another song that come and we shot all these videos.
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And I'm less about like single moments and more about I want people to sort of feel the breadth of the record. And I'm very confident that one of the songs will work. but it's more about just putting them out and letting people hear some of the record before it's out rather than what I've done before is just like here's my first single here's the album and yeah
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Yeah, it's definitely different. I think I've been more explorative with this album. I've kind of had an attitude of why the fuck not, and not really felt like I have to be in a box of being a singer-songwriter of, like, I have to do this or I have to do that. And I lived in India for a little bit and worked with a load of Indian musicians and producers and blah, blah, blah. Obviously, I made...
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A song like Azizan with Ilya, who's Persian and that's in that world. And Old Phone, I think, is more in a Nashville country world. And there's just lots of different moments on the record. And the record is called Play. And therefore, it has to be playful. It has to be celebratory.
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I released two albums that are kind of... Well, one was the sort of main album and one sort of came off the back of it. But they were both very like... very depressing about quite hard hitting subjects, very muted.
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I still think they're beautiful records, but I feel like coming out of that of having, you know, going through grief and all of that sort of stuff coming out, I needed to have something that felt bright and colorful and playful. And that's where doing St. Patrick's Day, playing at Tootsies in Nashville, doing the New Orleans thing, the whole record just has to feel like fun and exciting.
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think you just write all the time i think you have to i think writer's block is actually fear of being shit rather than because i think everyone can write you have to just sit down and write but you have to accept that sometimes it's shit and it's not good enough and i think that i just write and write and write sometimes it's good sometimes it's great um and sometimes it will be a song that you you keep and i think if you do that year in year out you're left at the end of the year with like 10 11 songs that are really great and then you can actually start forming an album
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and doing things that are so specifically American if that makes sense like you go to whenever I travel the world I'll try and do things that feel cultural and I feel like going to a baseball game and having a hot dog feels for me as a Brit I'm like this feels American I think like a rodeo is that for me like getting into the swing of that would be fun like I would love I spoke to my promoter and I was like do they do tours of rodeos because I'd love to just tour rodeos even if it's like for four weeks just
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I would love that. for it to seem possible to any kid out there that just wants to pick up an acoustic guitar. I think the thing that's jarring about me to people is also the thing that creates hope because I am a regular dude who picked up an acoustic guitar, who's not from a major city, who made it happen by going out there.
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And I would love for all kids to go, fuck, I could probably do that too, rather than feel like it's an impossible thing. Because it's really not. It's really not. I think that it's... I couldn't sing when there's footage of me online. Have you seen it?
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Type in Ed Sheeran addicted. It's me when I'm 14 singing.
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It's bad. But then I like practiced and became... You can actually just find the song online. Yeah, someone leaked all my old EPs, which I guess shows progress. Listen to it. You can fast forward it a little bit. I've got an intro because I love an intro. Oh, shit.
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I think I took too much. It's all right. You wait. I'm addicted to your talk.
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Yeah, but it's not like, it's not professional standard, is it?
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That's what I'm saying. We can turn it off now. But I'm saying like, I didn't know how to sing in tune. And then I taught myself how to sing in tune by practicing. So honestly, when I go into talks at like music schools and to kids and stuff, I always play that and go...
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because everyone just assumes that you're born and you just got it and you can teach yourself I taught myself well I didn't teach myself how to play guitar but I learned how to play guitar I learned how to perform I learned how to perform in front of lots of different crowds I learned how to song write I learned how to sing and I'd love my legacy to be any kid anywhere literally anywhere goes I can do that too
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Because I think that that's like music. Music is a thing that it's also for kids that aren't good at other things who don't have a lot of self-worth or self-confidence. If they start music in any form in poetry or singing or instruments or even like work in a studio or whatever, it gives you so much like worth and confidence in yourself as a human being.
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And I think that in school, there's so much like...
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importance put on you must be good at this subject you must be good at this subject to actually be a good human being and to go out in the world and achieve and I just wasn't good at anything as a kid and I didn't have a lot of self-worth because of that and I felt like I was stupid and music was I was only good at music and that became my career and I think when I go in to schools and stuff and talk to people I'm like you only need one thing that you're good at
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But then not being embarrassed about that phase of your life. Because another thing that I've found in my career is I've learned everything from my failures and nothing from my success. It's not like I was on stage at Wembley Stadium being like, I'm learning a lot from this. I learned everything on the way to there. And I think that what that shows is actually failing at something is good.
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Because then I learned how to sing after then. And there's so much importance nowadays on...
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you just even on social media about like succeeding and showing you're doing well and like not being in but like the embarrassment of something failing or flopping when actually all of those things every single artist in the world has played to two people in a room and sucked every single and that is a really important um stepping stone and everyone has written songs that have released that
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do it okay you living in nashville at that time or anytime have you ever considered doing a country album i think there's yeah i guess so but i the from living in nashville you can't just like dip your toe in if i'm gonna do it i have to do it and then that's it do you have like a good twang like could you pull it off
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Other people didn't like. That's an important stepping stone. It's all about like learning from failures rather than just always... Your career just can't do this the whole time. You can't just get bigger and bigger and bigger, better and better. Everything works because that's just not real life. It's about like...
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picking yourself up after the failures and trying again rather than giving up I again always say that sorry to bang on about education stuff but I think with with anything it's important that when you have that thing that you love that you want to do don't give yourself a plan B because if you have a plan B and it gets really difficult and starts failing you always revert to the plan B and if you have plan A
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at all points you go, this has to work. And even at the points where you fail, like I've done really terrible shows where it's, there was a show that I did in Exeter where it was like, I think like 60 quid to get down there on a train, but I had a rucksack full of CDs. And I was like, do you know what? If I sell seven CDs, I've made my money back and a tenner.
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So all I need to do is sell seven CDs at this gig. And I got to the gig, no one turned up. I waited too long
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to see if people had turned up and then i missed my train home and i had to sleep at the train station and in that moment like 18 19 i was like why am i doing this like all my friends have just gone to university some of them have gone out to get jobs they're actually like on their path and i feel like i'm not uh achieving anything and in that moment my head just went but this is the only thing you can do so just keep doing it and i hope it will work and
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I think that in that moment, had I had a plan B, I would have gone, cool, I'll just... I'll go and do that now. You must find that, though. I mean, you're hugely successful. You must have just been like, this is going to work.
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you know in you what you actually love and the people making fun of you as well because that is a huge thing it's like it's so easy for other people to like make fun of someone for taking a risk and doing something and I actually think it
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comes from like an internal thing of when they say what's she doing she can't do that it's actually because in their own heads they can't do it and they haven't got the thing that goes you know fuck it i'm just gonna do this fuck what other people think and it's it's like almost taking the piss out of you for even dreaming about it because why the fuck would you dream about being successful like just do do your plan b i think it's like almost a scary thing sometimes for that and i got mate i had
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None of my mates, even my best friends now, none of them really came to the first gigs I did. It wasn't until it started like catching steam that suddenly people were like, I'm not saying like all my mates, but a large amount of my mates who are now my best friends and have, you know, have been since school. I had my...
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One of my best friends who literally like, you know, he's godfather of one of my kids. When I was a teenager, rung me up pretending to be Zane Lowe and was like, Zane Lowe worked on Radio 1 at the time and had this thing called Hottest Record in the World where he would like debut a new record of an unsigned artist. And he rung me up pretending to be Zane Lowe.
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I feel because my heritage is sort of Anglo-Irish and I grew up with trad music in my household. I think it would have to be a little twinge of that. I think I'd have to bring Irish trad music into country because it's the same instruments anyway. But yeah, so I wouldn't have a twang. But I've made country songs in the past. They've just never come out. I feel like I have to...
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And then all of, you know, he had all of my other mates on the phone and they were all laughing down the phone. And I was like, you know, stuff like that.
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But then four years later, guess what? I'm hottest record in the world on Zane Lowe.
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I don't. I mean, one, my mate Zach. Real one. Zach always came to the shows.
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I think it all comes down to enjoyment, though, because I think if you're still enjoying what you do, because even though I did that Exeter gig and no one turned up for it, I was still playing music that night rather than doing something I didn't want to do. So I think there will come difficult times in everyone's careers.
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But as long as you love what you do, you've always got that at the end of the day. But I'd say if you're in a job that you don't love. try and find something that you love.
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i would love to do a movie one i would sit here with you and geek out over a movie because i'm a movie girl too like i'm full movies have you seen the florida project yes just literally just watched that the other night oh my god blew my fucking mind did you see an aura of course yeah yeah yeah but i hadn't really heard of sean baker before then so then i went back and did like tangerine in the florida project and but florida project like i haven't cried like that at a movie for just at the end with the little girl i was just like
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I have to do it properly. And I think when you transition to country, you can't transition back. Once you're there, you're there.
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Nashville is like my favorite city in the States. And yeah, it's always been like my end goal would be like, I'm going to move to Nashville and transition to country. But yeah, I think you just have to do it properly. It's like it's a genre you have to really respect. And it's not just dipping in and out.
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There was a conversation about 10 years ago to go on with someone, and I think that would be the only way that I would do it at the moment. I don't think... I've had this conversation before. I don't think English artists are like... I mean, there are some that have the pizzazz of Super Bowl, fireworks, dancers, blah, blah, blah.
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But me going up there and being like, here's the A-team, and here's Perf... I just... Like, no one wants to see that. Whereas if there was a show with a lot of that, like, say, like... If it was Beyonce's show and she had all the kind of bells and whistles and then there was a moment where we sung perfect together, that makes sense to me. But me, I don't know. I can't picture myself doing it.
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Honestly, I have no idea where my body is at the moment. We've been in India, China, and then just and then UK for a bit. And then now in America. So my body is all over the shop.
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for 15 minutes you know i would definitely go on and do it with with someone i think i think yeah just to do the super bowl but i don't think my uh set lends itself to that i don't know i just you know like you you've got horses for courses you've got to do what like suits you
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Just my, the catalog that I have doesn't really lend itself. Have you seen me play as well? Because it's with a loop pedal and you have to build the things. It doesn't really lend itself to the Super Bowl. Hey, hang on, guys. I've just got to set this up for two minutes. You know, it doesn't really.
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I got really into ranch dressing when I lived in Nashville. And then I got really fat. So I've kind of like eased off the ranch dressing a bit. I'm more of a like balsamic vinegar boy.
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Oh, right. Yeah. I have this in restaurants where I say water and they're like, what? Oh, water. Wait.
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You know, we have a cider where I'm from in Suffolk that's like, it's like the number one cider in the UK and it's called Aspel's. And I was saying that to a friend and he was like, y'all have a cider called Aspel's?
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you never see it it does sound like that what is it aspels it's like uh it's well it's a it's a side it's like a oh you guys would call it hard cider what is your favorite thing to eat when you're here chicken wings but the chicken wings are like the size of my fist and when you see the chicken wings in england they're like you know actual chicken wings they're quite like meager and you know but here it's like you're literally eating steroids
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Five guys, I think. Everywhere around the world. But I'd say when I'm in America, Whataburger in Texas. I think that burger bangs the most. In terms of all the burgers that I've had, Whataburger bangs. But if it's an American fast food chain around the world, I'd usually go five guys. Oh, I fuck with KFC as well, man. I really like KFC.
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Yes, I do like In-N-Out, but I feel like there needs to be a wide lens view on a fast food restaurant. And I don't think In-N-Out's chips bang. Sorry, their fries. I don't think they bang. Whereas KFC actually do the best fries. KFC fries bang. What? They bang.
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And I think this is about Burger King as well because I've never really been keen on Burger King's burgers, but their fries are always good. Oh, their fries are so fucking good. But yeah, KFC fries, bucket. I actually, mate, both kids the night before we stayed at my manager's house and both my children The night before we had a big family bucket. That was like our initiative.
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Big family bucket and a bottle of Dominus, you know, Dominus red wine from Napa. Yeah. A really nice wine with a family bucket.
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My kids like Disney. We went to Disneyland. They weren't. Like they just weren't fucking with it. And it was sort of like, I wanted, I wanted to sort of see them go, wow. But they were just sort of like, I don't know. Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which I think is great. I think it's great. I think like I find anything in life that has to be those extremities. That's what I feel about my music is I either have people that really hate me or really love me. There's no kind of like passive. Yeah. And I think that middle bit is what you have to avoid that like, it's all right.
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Like you have to be like fanatical about something or like, I don't like that thing.
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Yeah, that's been my entire career. And that's how you have a fan base is fan base. People really ride for you or they really fucking want to take you down.
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I don't know. I think that sometimes overexposure goes into it, like songs being on the radio too much. I think also I don't necessarily fit the social norm of what a pop star should look like or act like. And I don't know if that rubs people up the wrong way that I do look like their brother who works at a pizza shop. I feel like people are like, why? Like, why has that happened?
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And maybe that annoys them. And then you pair that with the overexposure and...
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Totally, yeah. And I think you kind of... I've sort of like slipped into that as well, especially like because of the era that I came up in was, you know, Justin Bieber was massive. One Direction were massive. And I think there was always part of me that goes, should I... So we'll look like that.
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I don't look like that. It's like dressing a mannequin that just doesn't need to be dressed like that. So I feel like I always have to stay true to who I am and also my fan base.
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from the beginning, started out kind of misfit-y like me, and my gigs were just full of people that, you know, it was like ripped jeans, baggy, you know, converse, big shirts, rather than we're getting clammed up to go out to the gig. I might like have segued into that now that the gigs are bigger and people have got older, but I found being a misfit, I attracted misfits.
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It definitely has like a vibe about it that every time I've gone to Boston, like it's always been the first place for me, like the first biggest theater I played in the first arena I played here and then the first stadium. And it's always been. But I guess there's something to do with the Irish heritage, I guess that. Yeah, but yeah, I love Boston. Last night was fun. We did, it's obviously St.
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Maybe when I'm up, maybe the Super Bowl. Maybe that's when I debut it.
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And actually, leather trousers, you could reuse them on both. Because being a cowboy, you've got to have some leather there, you know?
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Yes. Yeah, because I dressed up as Edward Scissorhands. I do a Christmas party every year with my best friends. I dressed up as Edward Scissorhands. So I was like full leather.
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I had to take off the jacket after about 10 minutes. I was like, I am hot. And bear in mind, this is December in England when it's freezing. And I was still roasting.
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Leather trousers aren't... I don't fuck with them.
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I think... Like, there was a local pub that I would always go to, and I still do go to it, but you can never really let loose the way that you used to be able to as in my teenage years. You know, you go to a pub to blow off steam, and I think it sort of turned into everyone always knew that I went to this place, so...
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i don't know you could never really get to the point where you're actually like blowing off steam and proper drunk because you have to kind of keep an eye out on anything you know anything could happen um so there was a dilapidated barn on my land so i was like we could just turn it into a pub so i bought an old pub off ebay like the kind of uh the counter and the whatever ebay
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It was on eBay, yeah. It was on eBay. It was just an old pub that had sort of taken the sort of shelving encounter and stuff. And then I got all the plumbing, wiring. I don't even know the pipes put in. And it's sort of like it's a room for memorabilia. I think Cherry was like...