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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never academically driven in English, but, again, Tom Waits is a perfect example of an influence. He writes so immaculately and paints so perfectly a world and the characters within it. There are writers like that who are my influences: vivid and gifted storytellers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Biggest musical influences would be people like Nina Simone and Tom Waits. A huge amount of writers like Leslie Feist and Paul Simon.
- Chicago
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- Nov 07, 2020
My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.
- Grief
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried to avoid anything that caused me frustration or grief or duress. I played FarmVille and procrastinated like all teenagers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so easy to look forward when you're travelling; you spend your life looking forward, thinking, 'What's next? When do I get time to work on my music again? Or when do I get time to get my 'normal' life back?'
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me growing up, I had a Christian upbringing, and I just noticed this Catholic influence in school.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being 16 is the worst time to be anybody, there is not enough tea in China to persuade me to be that young again. I wasn't very happy with myself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the earlier stuff I did in studio with producers was very pop-directed, which I was uncomfortable with.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to almost not look forward to recording, because it was like, 'Okay, what am I going to have to sacrifice?'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment - if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes - everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my first festivals was Oxygen 2006. It had this amazing lineup with the Arctic Monkeys on their first or second album, the Strokes, Kings of Leon, the Magic Numbers and then the Who and James Brown. I waited in the pit for a good eight hours to see James Brown.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love making music, but if you make something that inspires somebody else to make something, without getting too airy-fairy, you've contributed to the zeitgeist in some way, and that's just an amazing feeling.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm reading a lot of poetry because it's a lot easier to dip in and dip out when you've got 10 minutes to yourself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've definitely received a lot of support in Nashville; it's a huge music town. I like country music. Like any genre I'm largely unfamiliar with, there are elements I really enjoy and elements that go over my head.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it all started with Nina Simone. When I was maybe seven or eight, I used to listen to one of her albums every night before I went to sleep. For me, her voice was everything.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best vocalists I can think of are female.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no singer I can think of who can touch Ella Fitzgerald. And when Billie Holiday sings, she's merciless about it. Her voice has just this immaculate sadness - even in happy songs, there was something that was so broken about it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought of myself as a very, very obscure artist.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Muddy Waters and Nina Simone. I also watched 'The Blues Brothers' movie over and over.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I always saw the hypocrisy of the Catholic church. The history speaks for itself, and I grew incredibly frustrated and angry. I essentially just put that into my words.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wrote music for the mainstream.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to growing up was John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters. It's music that feels like home to me.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blues is a very physical music.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a few Irish writers who have a very strong influence on me, especially on the 'Take Me to Church' EP.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just hate getting my hair cut.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel my duty is to make music.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm uncomfortable with selfies and status updates documenting mundane pieces of my life, which I don't think should be of interest to anyone else.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Ireland, there are a lot of aspects of God that hang in the air. And my music reflects that.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think marriage is a scary concept. It's a scary concept for anybody. I'm not sure where I sit with that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The myth of fame and the myth of success is cultivated because it is monetisable and it is profitable.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always eager to make new music.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I did the first album... the way I wrote 'Church'... was just to trust my instincts with the music and let it kind of do what it does.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Either somebody has equal rights, or they don't. And certainly in the Irish constitution, marriage is genderless. There's no mention of a man and a woman.
- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't even have that many close LGBT friends or anything like that, but I suppose it was growing up and becoming aware of how you are in a cultural landscape that is blatantly homophobic... you turn around and say, 'Why did I grow up in a homophobic place? Why did I grow up in a misogynistic place?'
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
You grow up and recognise that in an educated, secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognise in yourself, and challenge yourself, that if you see racism or homophobia or misogyny in a secular society, as a member of that society, you should challenge it. You owe it to the betterment of society.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a moment, a few weeks after I signed, that it actually hit me. I was signed to a major label.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main thing is, I can't stay up late partying when I'm on tour. That's not good for my voice or my health in general.
- Musicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm quite tame as touring musicians go.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a surreal experience filming promotion with Ryan Seacrest and meeting Top 40 pop artists.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion wasn't imposed on me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to be happy. I try to face things without regret or make sure that I'm happy with things and leave nothing unsaid if I can.
- Nov 07, 2020
I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent quite a bit of time in choirs, growing up, and in the world-touring music group Anuna.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rarely do I finish a song lyrically before I have a musical idea there, but then again, rarely ever would I finish a song musically before starting the lyrical ideas. So a lot of the time, they come in tandem, or they just come at a glance.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Especially on the road, it's very hard to find time to actually sit down and write.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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. In that case, I'd rather wait 'till the thought is ready, 'till I feel like I'm happy with everything.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to get in trouble with the Catholic Church. I'm not religious myself, but my issue is with the organization. It's an organization of men - it's not about faith.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate nightclubs, and I get fed up very quickly in crowded rooms. I enjoy being around people I know.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always drawn to gospel music and the roots of African-American music. It's the foundation of rock and roll.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's not a lot of room for thinking in popular culture; there's not a lot of room for being conflicted.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It sounds like I'm joking when I say it, but when I wrote 'Take Me To Church' and a lot of these things, I didn't think they would be hits. I thought I was writing for a potentially smaller audience.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I figured the songs wouldn't make much of a splash. I didn't think 'Take Me To Church' would play on the radio or get in the charts, and I didn't think about dealing with a global audience.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had just discovered jazz, and I started singing in a kind of blues cover band at the age of 15. We called ourselves - it was a terrible name - the Blue Zoots. We couldn't actually get our hands on zoot suits, nor did we dress in blue. We did covers of Screamin' Jay Hawkins and kind of Blues Brothers repertoire stuff.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time I heard Tom Waits, it was like everything just flipped. It was just this fascination with him. My cousin showed me 'Small Change,' and I just couldn't get over that this was a white guy singing.
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- Nov 07, 2020