We all run the risk of thinking that people have common sense sometimes. — Hozier Common sense Copy Share Image
I like playing with light and shade. I like saying awful things in very pretty ways. — Hozier Color Copy Share Image
There's not a lot of room for thinking in popular culture; there's not a lot of room for being conflicted. — Hozier Being Copy Share Image
There are a few Irish writers who have a very strong influence on me, especially on the 'Take Me to Church' EP. — Hozier Church Copy Share Image
For me growing up, I had a Christian upbringing, and I just noticed this Catholic influence in school. — Hozier Catholic Copy Share Image
As I listened more and more to the music that moved me, I gained more fascination with America. — Hozier America Copy Share Image
The public discourse online is not done through the polite language of debate. — Hozier Debate Copy Share Image
Especially on the road, it's very hard to find time to actually sit down and write. — Hozier Copy Share Image
I have very strong feelings about a lot of things. I am sometimes reluctant to come straight to the forefront with it.… — Hozier Copy Share Image
Growing up, I always saw the hypocrisy of the Catholic church. The history speaks for itself, and I grew incredibly frustrated and… — Hozier Angry Copy Share Image
When I write songs, I try to remove myself a little bit. Obviously, they're very personal to me, but it feels easier… — Hozier Copy Share Image
The church is an organisation that institutionalises an aversion to homosexuality, it institutionalises gender inequality and it speaks from a place of… — Hozier Ashamed Copy Share Image
To be honest, the biggest reason I write music and became a musician was to create the amount of joy that I… — Hozier Copy Share Image
It was a rural upbringing by the seaside. A real quiet place surrounded by fields. I had to travel into town for… — Hozier Copy Share Image
I think it's very hard to write things about being joyful. I find that quite difficult. I think when you're happy, you… — Hozier Copy Share Image
My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to growing… — Hozier Blues Copy Share Image
I didn't even have that many close LGBT friends or anything like that, but I suppose it was growing up and becoming… — Hozier Friends Copy Share Image
A lot of the 'leave' campaign was centered around a thinly veiled xenophobia, just 'control our own borders.' It's not a good… — Hozier Control Copy Share Image
When you play to an audience, you come away energized. It's the promo that really breaks an artist. Some lad sitting on… — Hozier Art Copy Share Image
Rarely do I finish a song lyrically before I have a musical idea there, but then again, rarely ever would I finish… — Hozier Copy Share Image
It's a very, very interesting experience to be talking to people who are such icons in their own right. When Adele came… — Hozier Day Copy Share Image
Governments do not care about your Facebook-assembled opinion. Incompetent politicians don't read your tweets; there are reasons for them being out of… — Hozier Change Copy Share Image
I'm still finding my feet in many ways as a performer. I'm not an extrovert, and certainly the attention isn't what drew… — Hozier Attention Copy Share Image
You grow up and recognise that in an educated, secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognise in yourself,… — Hozier Challenge yourself Copy Share Image
I think it is important to differentiate between lip service towards something and actually making change. — Hozier Change Copy Share Image
I look at all good things with a bit of a dark lens, I suppose, especially with something like love. — Hozier Dark Copy Share Image
I used to almost not look forward to recording, because it was like, 'Okay, what am I going to have to sacrifice?' — Hozier Copy Share Image
Regardless of the sexual orientation behind a relationship, it is still a relationship and still love. — Hozier Copy Share Image
Will there be a time when equality will exist? I think given human nature there will always be conflict. — Hozier Conflict Copy Share Image
Religion wasn't imposed on me. I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly. — Hozier Catholic Copy Share Image
I think if more people would understand how simple and what really feminism is, I would imagine that most men I know… — Hozier Feminism Copy Share Image
One of my favorite books is 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' by George Orwell, and 'Catcher in the Rye,' obviously, is a big influence and… — Hozier Copy Share Image
One of my biggest influences of all time would be somebody like Tom Waits. David Bowie is another huge influence. I'm also… — Hozier Copy Share Image
No Facebook status is as worrying as a vote and no tweet is as noticeable as an angry cry from a crowd… — Hozier Angry Copy Share Image
All songs, all pieces of art, reflect the world that they were made in and the values of those artists and the… — Hozier Art Copy Share Image
I'm influenced a lot by Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, even Paul Weller - Billie Holiday as well: People who wrote and sang… — Hozier Copy Share Image
