Ed Sheeran is glad he had a "hard ride" to success because he can appreciate his career more.
Ed Sheeran is pleased he had a tough time during his rise to fame because he can appreciate it more.
Ed SheeranSheeran ended up sleeping rough on the streets of London when he was starting out on his road to pop star success, but he doesn't regret his homeless days because he knew he had to be in the capital to get where he wanted to be.
He said: "I think anything worth having is going to be hard to get and I wasn't expecting it to be an easy ride.
"I kind of wanted it to be the hard ride because when you get it it's actually worth it.
He din't think he was the only one to use the Tube to catch up on sleep saying think that's a common thing if you go out late.
Refusing to return back to Suffolk, to live with my parents but he needed to be in London and was gigging every day for free.
The 23-year-old star left home aged just 16 to chase his music dream and he believes people who really want to succeed within the arts shouldn't go to university but experience life at the hard end by doing menial jobs in the industry learning about real life while working their way up.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's 'Today' programme, he added: "I'm not dismissive of the value of university for people who need to learn academic stuff. If you want to be a doctor, go to university. But I'm dismissive of university in terms of the arts.
"The amount of people I know who left school at 16 and started making tea for photographers and for radio stations and now they have pretty successful jobs at 23/24.
"Whereas, the people I know who went to university and did anything to get a degree at university have come out in £20,000 of debt and are having to start off where everyone started at 16."
Despite achieving worldwide success with his two studio albums, '+' and 'x' - which are pronounced "plus" and "multiply" respectively - Ed insists he has yet to have "broken through to the big time".
Revealling he din't know if that had happened yet. Only because he remember the people that were the biggest when he was 15/16 and not a lot of them are around now he is 23.
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