Ed Sheeran on success and fame: 'I want to catch up with Taylor Swift'

Superstar Ed Sheeran has revealed that he won't stop until he reaches Taylor Swift's level of international success.

During a new interview with MTV News, the 'Photograph' sensation explained that he would like to catch up with her in terms of American exposure: "At the moment, Taylor [Swift] is a benchmark in America and a lot of other countries. In America, I want to catch up with her.”

Sheeran went onto add that she has about 10 years of commercial success on him so he might not be able to reach her level as quickly as he hopes: “I think it would take a lot more work because she’s obviously been going about 10 years more than me."

“If I passed her, I think she’d then get more competitive and do more stuff. I think it would only be healthy. Like her surpassing me in sales in the U.S., that’s healthy for me because I now want to get up to that point.”

Watch Sheeran performing live on 'The Voice USA' here: