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"Most of the people that are successful started life off as a weird kid with no friends," said the honoree of the American Institute for Stuttering's Freeing Voices Changing Lives Benefit Gala, emceed by Emily Blunt.

Ed Sheeran is cool with his uncool childhood.

Having things that make you different help you become an interesting person," he told The Hollywood Reporter. The musician was commended at the New York City fundraiser for his openness about overcoming his stutter, a disorder that Emily Blunt also conquered when a teacher first suggested she try out for a school play. "It can be mistaken for a learning disability, an anxious sensibility or a weakness," the actress said. "It's not true to your real character; it's just that you're limited in your ability to speak.… I wanted people to understand that it wasn't that I didn't know who I was or what I wanted to say or who I wanted to be."

In his speech, Sheeran said, "I was a very, very weird child. I had a port-wine stain birthmark on my face that I got lasered off when I was very young; one day, they forgot to put the anesthetic on, and ever since then, I had a stutter. I also had very big, blue NHS glasses — NHS is the National Health Service, one day I hope you'll have the same! And I lacked an eardrum on one side of my ear, so stuttering was actually the least of my problems!"

"But it was still quite a difficult thing. The thing I found most difficult was knowing what to say but not really being able to express it the right way," he continued.

"Stuttering is not a thing you have to be worried about at all. Even if you have quirks and weirdness, you shouldn't be worried about that," he told the younger attendees.

"The people I went to school with that were the most normal and were the coolest when we grew up — I was telling Emily earlier that one of the cool kids from school now does my plumbing! That's a fact!"

"I wanted to not necessarily to shed light on stuttering or make it a thing, but stress to kids in general to just be yourself, because there's no one in the world that can be a better you than you. If you try to be the cool kid in class, you could end up very boring and doing plumbing for someone who apparently wasn't that cool. Be yourself. Embrace your quirks. Being weird is a wonderful thing.…"

"Embrace your weirdness," he concluded. "From a stuttering point of view, don't treat it as an issue. Work through it and get the treatment you want to get, but don't ever see it as a plight on your life. Carry on pushing forward."

Paraphrased from The Hollywood Reporter article from 6/9/2015 by Ashley Lee