Hozier

Religion wasn't imposed on me.

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I wish I had more time to read. I'm always traveling.

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I'm always eager to make new music.

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I love a lot of Irish folk music and Irish folk songs.

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I'd love to do something with somebody like James Blake.

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I always thought of myself as a very, very obscure artist.

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I've been a total Tom Waits dork for a long, long time.

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I just hate getting my hair cut.

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I love Muddy Waters and Nina Simone. I also watched 'The Blues Brothers' movie over and over.

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Social media is an advertisement for the superficial extroverted self.

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I'm an awful control freak at times when it comes to production and stuff like that.

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Offer me that deathless death Good God, let me give you my life.

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There was a moment, a few weeks after I signed, that it actually hit me. I was signed to a major label.

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If you can say something beautiful in a very terrible way - I was always drawn to that.

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The song is about asserting yourself and reclaiming your humanity through an act of love.

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I hate nightclubs, and I get fed up very quickly in crowded rooms. I enjoy being around people I know.

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The song, to me, is about what it is to be a human, what it is to love someone as a human…

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Certainly in the case of having to answer questions about where a song comes from, it's a hell of a lot easier…

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I know I'm not the kind of music that's going to have tons of screaming fans, and I'm not gonna be everyone's…

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I think all that we would know of America back home is foreign policy, and maybe the snippets of the madness of…

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I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the…

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Sexuality, and sexual orientation - regardless of orientation - is just natural. An act of sex is one of the most human…

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If I don't think something's worth saying, I don't think it's quite there, I'd rather just not say it, to be honest.…

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Someone had an eye on me as I was leaving high school. I had a chance to record demos, but they were…

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I was never academically driven in English, but, again, Tom Waits is a perfect example of an influence. He writes so immaculately…

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You just feel like you're doing a job that you want to be doing, and then one day, somebody asks you a…

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My hair grows into a fuzz ball - I just wanted it to grow downwards rather than outwards - but then I…

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One of my first festivals was Oxygen 2006. It had this amazing lineup with the Arctic Monkeys on their first or second…

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I am absolutely behind equal rights but I am also bridging the gap between cultural mentality and society's mindset as there are…

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I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death, a death of everything. You kind of…

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I had just discovered jazz, and I started singing in a kind of blues cover band at the age of 15. We…

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I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties. I spent quite a…

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The best vocalists I can think of are female.

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I'm quite tame as touring musicians go.

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I feel my duty is to make music.

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I never wrote music for the mainstream.

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Blues is a very physical music.

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The more I come to L.A., the more it's amazing.

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There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin

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Art and music are the vehicle for the zeitgeist.

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