_{“Isn’t it strange how it all happens? All my life I’d dreamt about the bright lights, the big city. You know, they tell you it’s going to be glamorous, and they tell you that you have everything, and no one tells you how lonely it’s going to be, and they don’t tell you, when you’re twirling in font of the mirror as a child, what the papers are going to say about you someday. ‘Cause they don’t tell you they’re buliding you up just to try and knock you down. But they haven’t yet.”}

Dear Friend… I wanted to tell you about us running. There was this beautiful sunset. And just a few hours before, everyone I love had their last day of high school ever. And I was happy because they were happy, even though I counted, and I have 1,095 days to go.

“All of the love songs that I’ve ever written have been about this one relationship that I’ve been in over the past four and a half years. But when I dropped out of school and moved up to London, I’d just started the relationship, and I was kinda like, “Look, I’m gonna move to London, and I’m not gonna see you a whole lot. We should probably just end this.” So we ended it and a day later got back together. But in that day that we were kind of split up… I was on the tube, uh and I was going down the escalator at Charing Cross, and I was looking at different women, and I was kinda like… Every single girl that I looked at, I was kinda like, but you’re not - you’re not her.” — Ed Sheeran on his inspiration for Sunburn, August 4, 2011.