"I literally got home and bought six beanbags! During it all I felt a lot of things: I felt anxiety, I felt love, I felt warm, I felt a bit weird. And afterwards, you spend all day just thinking about what you've been through”, the singer went on to add.

"I've only done it once and I've told my mum and dad about it, but I did actually go through two months where I'd been such a good boy for such a long time that I went and tried everything.

"I found out I'm not missing much - that experience was probably the best out of all of them. I think alcohol's a lot more fun."

Ed Sheeran's new album x is projected to beat Coldplay's Ghost Stories for the fastest selling album of 2014.