Ed Sheeran Reveals What He Talks About With Taylor Swift, Opens Up About Grief & Crying Daily Since Losing Friend Jamal Edwards, Fighting Copyright Lawsuits & More in Apple Music Interview

On fighting the Marvin Gaye lawsuit, which he just won:

“The thing that it’s quite freeing is usually if we did an interview, there’d be things that I’d be like, I’m not going to talk about that because that’ll be sensationalized and go to a thing. And there’s something very freeing about being like, ‘Yeah, this is what’s f–king going on, and I don’t care how people take it. This is how I feel. This is what’s happened. This is what’s happened in my past.’ And there’s something very freeing about just being honest. And what’s the worst thing that can happen? This is the thing, even with the lawsuit stuff.”

“When people are like, ‘Don’t talk about it, don’t talk about it,’ I’m like, ‘Why? What do you think my opinion is? This is my opinion.’ Obviously, I’m f-cking fighting it. Or my opinion on alcohol abuse or drug abuse or depression or stuff, this is it. This is it. This is how I feel. And I might not feel like that in five years’ time and things change, but this is it now. And I think artists, we’re expected to be these, as you said, this sheen and this perfect thing and never have struggle. ‘Why would you ever have struggles? You are not a human being.’ It’s a thing that’s expected, and it’s a thing that I’ve played into over the last 13 years of my career, of just being like, keep calm and shut up, and just get on stage, sing the songs…I love getting on stage and singing songs, but with this album, it’s what I’ve gone through and I want people to listen to it basically, and I hope they do.”

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