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GlobalGrind: You’re doing huge numbers out there in Britain.
Ed Sheeran: Yeah, man. It’s going really well. I’m really enjoying it.
Your debut album dropped. How do you say it? It’s just a ‘plus’ sign?
Yeah, just a plus then I guess. Literally just a plus sign.
What does that stand for?
I did a lot of independent releases beforehand so this is kind of the first step, and I kind of saw it as the addition to all that. It was kind of like an add-on, if that makes sense.
You said you played over three hundred dates in one year. Is that true?
Yeah, I kind of wanted to become the best at what I did. And I haven’t gotten there yet, but the best way to do that was practice. So I did as many gigs as I could. I wrote as many songs as I could, released as much stuff as I could, and worked with as many artists as I could. That was my kind of grind. Just that practice makes perfect.
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