CMAT

I think we need more willingness to fail.

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My sensibilities are towards the kitchen sink.

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I'm a huge, huge, huge Charli XCX fan.

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I'm first and foremost a fan girl.

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Country music is for everybody.

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My life is really boring.

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I'm always going to sing like a country singer.

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The way I communicate is exactly the way in speech and amongst friends as it is in music.

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I spent the first 25 years of my life trying to convince everyone that I was a pop star.

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I'm a bit woo-woo - you know, I believe there's a Loch Ness monster. It's science!

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Isn't it interesting that I have a terrible time in Nashville?

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I hope somebody gives me money for writing and releasing songs.

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Half of the country music fans in America who have listened to me, do not like me!

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I wear my heart on my sleeve. And I definitely am more sensitive than a lot of people I know.

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I think the structure of everything I do is probably always going to come from country music.

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I would never in a million years consider myself a Meath woman, although a lot of people say that to me to…

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I just have a job, which is singing and dancing, and everyone's like, 'Oh, look at the way she looks.' It's crazy.

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I don't necessarily think that my song being famous equates to me being famous because of the extremely, extraordinarily ephemeral nature of…

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If I knew what the next pop culture phenomenon was going to be I would be very rich and very famous!

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There's no point in suffering. You could just have been having a good time. Because life is very short.

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Everybody else on the estate we lived in worked in construction, or in shops, and they all lost their jobs. Everybody became…

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Courtney Love was loud and hyperfeminine. She was edgy - never androgynous. She was big and took up a lot of space…

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Obviously, I'm a bit of a vaudeville act; I like to jump around the stage and do little silly bits, but as…

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Whenever something gets in the way of me making music, I go crazy - cut -my-hair-off-and-glue-it-to-the-walls level of crazy. Thinking God is…

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When I was 12 I loved country music, nothing sounded better and was more fun and then I got to the age…

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Alone time is when I write, or watch 10 films back-to-back. I mean, my song 'Peter Bogdanovich' literally came from me watching…

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Even when I was a child, I used to constantly get into trouble at school because I couldn't stop talking and people…

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When I was growing up, the alternative-music scene, not just in Ireland but... in the U.K. and in America and stuff... the…

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We didn't really have any music that wasn't the radio, I wasn't exposed to any alternative music or anything until I was…

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I'm really focusing on songs that transfer well to live music, because my live band is such an important part of what…

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The shape of life, not just family life, but adult life, has completely transformed from the way it was before the Internet…

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Christmas is the only time of year where you get to experience a truly, truly indulgent potato.

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People come and go in this industry, but for me, it's all about longevity.

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I can be very bossy and I think I'm a little bit of a narcissist.

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My ability to make people laugh is absolutely something my entire psyche rests upon.

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My favourite thing to do on a night out is dance and talk to people.

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I'm an embarrassing person who's done some very embarrassing things.

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I'm very openly a big fan of The Last Dinner Party, they're such a beacon for me.

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It's very nice when you can relate to someone, but I've never really been relatable.

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Country music makes small things really big and big things really small.

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