Ed Sheeran wants there to be more encouragement around creativity in children as he was told to forget his musical dreams when he was younger and get a "real job".
The singer believes creativity should be encouraged in schools and at home and that the focus should not purely be on academics so that young people can feel like any path is possible to go down.
"I think kids should be encouraged to be creative," he told the Sunday Mirror.
"When I was a child, saying you wanted to be a musician, they'd go, 'You need to get a real job'."
He added that finding something you love to do is so important.
"School is so stressful. You've got all these exams - maths, English and science - all these things are very difficult," he said.
"But what I want to say to kids is if you do what you love, you will eventually get paid for it."
The 30-year-old father of one also said that failure can be a good learning curve.
"You learn way more from failure than you do from success," he explained.
"I have played Wembley Stadium and I've played a bar in Swindon to one person. And playing the bar in Swindon taught me more than Wembley Stadium."
