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
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 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 think it is important to differentiate between lip service towards something and actually making change. — Hozier Change 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
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
The success of 'Take Me To Church,' I never imagined it. I never imagined that it would work on radio, that it… — Hozier America Copy Share Image
Biggest musical influences would be people like Nina Simone and Tom Waits. A huge amount of writers like Leslie Feist and Paul… — Hozier Copy Share Image
I would love to get in trouble with the Catholic Church. I'm not religious myself, but my issue is with the organization.… — Hozier Catholic Copy Share Image
I think humans are driven by othering people, by defining themselves by who they are not and who is different from them.… — Hozier Copy Share Image
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… — Hozier Cup of tea Copy Share Image
I think all that we would know of America back home is foreign policy, and maybe the snippets of the madness of… — Hozier America Copy Share Image
The song, to me, is about what it is to be a human, what it is to love someone as a human… — Hozier Human beings 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
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
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
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
You grow up and recognize that in any educated secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognize in yourself,… — Hozier Challenge yourself Copy Share Image
From Eden is spoken from the Devil's point of view. I always loved in blues music how the Devil can be a… — Hozier Copy Share Image
I had a fascination with the roots of African American music. That would have been my first education in music. I had… — Hozier African american Copy Share Image
I remember writing lyrics for 'Take Me to Church' for a long time before I even had a song in mind for.… — Hozier Home Copy Share Image
Regardless of the sexual orientation behind a relationship, it is still a relationship and still love. — Hozier 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
I don't like false happy endings, and I don't think the real world is such a forgiving place. — Hozier Copy Share Image
I remember one of the first albums I got was an album called 'Thin Lizzy: Live and Dangerous.' — Hozier Album 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
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
Certainly in the case of having to answer questions about where a song comes from, it's a hell of a lot easier… — Hozier Hell Copy Share Image
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.… — Hozier Copy Share Image
Sexuality, and sexual orientation - regardless of orientation - is just natural. An act of sex is one of the most human… — Hozier Humans Copy Share Image
I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the… — Hozier Blues Copy Share Image
I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde… — Hozier Fairy Copy Share Image
Someone had an eye on me as I was leaving high school. I had a chance to record demos, but they were… — Hozier Chance Copy Share Image
