Ed Sheeran has revealed that One Direction's forthcoming single 'Little Things' contains one of his favourite lyrics to date.

The singer-songwriter wrote five songs for the pop group's new album 'Take Me Home' - only two made the album, including the band's soon to be released new single 'Little Things', which he says is more of a "ballad".

Sheeran told Capital FM that he wrote the song four years ago and that it contains one of the favourite lines that he has ever written. He said:

"The great thing about it is I wrote that song with a girl called Fiona Bevan when I was 17 and we lost the song. I've kept in touch with Fiona, we've done gigs and stuff. About two months ago she sent me the tune and was like 'Oh, do you remember this?'. I was like 'Yeah, I do remember that', and I was in the studio with the One Direction boys at the time and I was playing it and they were like 'we really like that'."

The 'Lego House' man added: "It's got one of my favourite lines that I've ever written in a song. Harry says, 'I know you never like the sound of your voice on tape and you never like to know how much you weigh and you still have to squeeze into your jeans but you're perfect to me'."