Ed Sheeran On His Bicycle Crash and The Dark Side of Fame | The Jonathan Ross Show

egg it's great to have you back on the

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thanks for joining us again so let's get to these arms of yours that you have but from a different part of each army spoke and I think yeah I also broke my rib so I broke my wrist, okay, how did it happen? I got off a bike, okay, quick, a motorcycle or a vice, a pedal bike, yeah, well, what are you going to do and stuff with that going down a really steep hill? I am a dangerous thing. The thing is like when it happened, I got up and said aha and then I cycled to the pub and then I went home, I went to sleep and then I woke up at like five in the morning like in a lot of agony, yeah. and then I went to the hospital, so yeah, I sat down, I had to postpone a couple of

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s, which sucks, it's actually the first time I've canceled shows and I tried to say that I'll still do the shows. but they said if I put more stress on it I might not be able to play again, so wow, it's good to have common sense and how long it will be before you're well enough to play again, I don't know.

I really don't know what they are. saying four weeks and then we'll see, but I'm glad you're more careful, you say, thanks, think about well, I'm a pretty clumsy guy anyway, as I remember before a show in 2013. I had to have like 12 stitches in hand because I was playing drums with two beer bottles around four in the morning, it smells bad, but that's what I did at a show after that and that's what wasn't cool, but did you know I did a show and then I put my foot in a boiling old man in Iceland who had his face open like he was a very clumsy person, that doesn't sound like clumsiness, such a scene of stupidity there was a boil because I didn't know it was like a small pool and I walked towards she.

It was bubbling, I mean it was pushing and every once in a while my leg would just go into it. It was scary anyway, let's move on, well no, this is all we are. I'm going to talk about listening well, the new album couldn't have been much help. At one point, you had all my almost all the places on the lists. It was a song from the Chainsmokers album. It prevented me from having full time. So are you ambitious? No? thinking about why I didn't understand that, why I don't have all the songs, well, no, you know, it was kind of a loophole that we didn't really know we could do, you know, basically, streaming had just become a part of it. off the chart, yeah, and then they changed it, so even though you didn't release it as a single, it still counts because it's streaming, so they changed it now, you can't, you can't do that anymore, so it probably has some kind of album, Devon, nobody else, yeah, yeah, I've got the most top 10 hits of all time, like one day you went on a trip, you did, even though you took, how long did you take between releasing the second one? album?

Well, technically it was a year, but I was recording most of it, so I was just traveling for three three months intensely and you try to go places where people didn't know you, that's why at another time at least, yeah . Well, I went to the countries, I had a sheet of where I had sold the most records in the fewest records and then I chose the places that at least did that, but it was not to try to encourage them to buy more, this was something that They are at the door of the car, ironically, the country I went to.

Now it has gone very well for me. I really can't go there. In which countries, Japan, Japan, you are big in Japan. Yes, its shape is the largest. Selling song of the year that surprises you, Whitney, many other people too, you have written with the reader or of course, who is here tonight, you helped her have her latest hit, of course, you also wrote with or for Justin. Bieber I think so too, now Biebs is a somewhat divisive figure for many. I like how great I've known him. I have never come out of a situation without an incredible story and now he is completely sober.

He's really good. We're in Japan and he had done a similar commercial for his phone that he probably got paid a ton for and I was making money for Ramsay, sorry dude, yeah, and I heard he was in town. I was doing a promo and he said, Let's hang out and I was like, I really don't want to like going out and having a lot of paparazzi there, so I thought, well, I know a really good dive bar that's made out of a train car and it's called train bar that when you ring a bell you have to buy a drink for everyone in the bar and you are there with light loads and like rocking the Japanese, everyone is like a big amusement park, it's cool yeah so I thought We were going there and he said okay and he showed up at his and I was like this is great so we sat there for a while.

He had water. I didn't have water and then he said, "Do some karaoke, isn't it." like that, obviously, but he said we went to this." karaoke bar and then he sang thinking out loud in karaoke we in love yourself in karaoke, which was pretty fun and then someone from his record label came over and I think that Universal has built a club on their label, so they said come to the club, so He showed up at a club that had a golf course and he lay down on the floor and put a golf ball in his mouth and, like, I had a golf coburn, he took it out of my mouth and I looked at its safety. code and the security guy said yes and I ended up with a big swing, so yeah, I miss me.

I also want to give you something interesting. Nothing, let's talk like that, no, but you know what my friend Mimei got, you know Amazon. thing you can shout and it orders you things Alexa, yeah, that's it, so he had that and he wasn't there and I ordered him and his wife in Kim Moss Wow and he showed up and they sent me a picture that I think is going to be his card of Christmas. Okay, yeah, I don't like it that much. Well, you don't even have a phone anymore, do you, and I really don't like it.

I don't like. I still like buying albums and listening. for them in the car, that's the thing, let's go back to the phoneme that is unusual and it's difficult but they must have a phone yes, yes, it's difficult you guys, he has children, although if I had children I would have a phone, but I don't . You have responsibilities but what are you doing? You're bored, you wouldn't play crazy birds, right? Hello, do you know what this is? This is what I think is weird, I think my generation was the last generation to not do it. you have phones when we were younger yeah you use both I haven't had phones in some time and when you're in a situation where there's no one there and you, I don't have anyone to talk to now you just put your phone in but it does a lot of time, when you thought and you think about things, you have a conversation with someone else or like, just yeah, I don't want to sound too loud on my ian, this is the best way to do it, but I honestly like it.

I talk to people more and I think more and it's a good thing, it's an absolutely vital thing, so you've done it for that reason, you've done it really... well, no, I did it because I don't like to talk very much. with people very well I am, I am, I like to be antisocial, I have to be very sociable for my job, but I like to be antisocial, so sometimes you go alone, yeah, I mean, I don't really like just walking, no , not in the Calles, although yes, do you have our place at home? A room, not the bathroom, but a room where people don't come when you are there.

Do you have a space where we can say no? I'm going to go and do something for me. Here, don't take it that way, you won't be like, listen to me, buddy, I'll do it. I'm sure you could find someone to help you get over Justin. Okay, can you say something really aggressive? Yes, he is drinking. "An unexpected twist if you will, this is what happens with hu and you see that Emily is very talented, obviously, but he is a genuinely nice man to run into or whenever I do things, you have always been very friendly, very sweet and very open," you stated.

Which is why you said you went through a bit of a bad phase where you lost touch with yourself when you first became famous, you know, it's kind of halfway through first, I think it was necessary. I didn't really have time to grow instead of To become famous, I had a long period of normal growth, but I think when you get into the industry you need to adapt to it and I didn't adapt because currently I was constantly working on the tour and you only had all obstacles. that people read something like this it happened to this person this I just found myself falling into all of them a sense of entitlement or believing that you were nice I feel mostly substance abuse things that were offered yes, before you thought you could be strong enough For me , I never, I never touched anything, I never touched anything, I started to slide into that and that's why I took a year off and so how did you have a voice to begin with?

Did you talk to anyone about it or have you? the force or going in and saying no, I don't want to be that person, no, I just focused on other things, I focused on work and I can't work under the influence. I can't write songs under the influence. I didn't act under the influence, so the more I worked for less, yeah, in some ways it was your career that you decided to continue with that and, Kevin, yeah, and you know I've worked my whole life to get to where. I am and you can't, you can't lose that because of something you do in your free time, it was the pressure, everything, no, it was just an hour, I really realized it was happening, it was something like that.

It started happening gradually and then some people took me a

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and told me to calm down and I was like, oh, she probably took some time off and when they first said that, you thought, because a lot of people, especially you, were like, becomes very successful. very quickly below, people are worried about saying things to you so that they tell you that it took some courage on their part and obviously a genuine friendship for you, but what are you willing to hear right away? You initially thought no, because man, it's all fun. First off, it's all fun, it all starts as a party and then you do it on your own and it's not like that.

I think it was like a wake-up call and I took a year off and you know, I've rekindled it. with a girl that I went to high school with and now we live together and I think that was like a real help in connecting because, as you know, I was 25 years in the music industry and I was on tour, so I needed I just needed to someone to balance me out well it's good to hear this is lovely and I'm glad you're done and I'm sorry for your hands but they will heal of course yes you.

I know it's okay, let's hope you'll be a little more sensible in the future.