In an interview with Rolling Stone, Ed Sheeran reacts to a picture taken of him and Beyoncé performing together at the Global Citizen Festival in South Africa. In the interview Ed Sheeran reveals how he gets ready to go on stage in front of 50,000+ people, to which the response was 'practically nothing'. When asked about the infamous photo of him & Beyoncé above, Ed says:
“I think it symbolizes two people being themselves, personally. She is the best performer on Earth. And I am a bloke in a T-shirt.”