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" All songs, all pieces of art, reflect the world that they were made in and the values of those artists and the hopes and aspirations of the people who listen to that music and who made that music. "
Values
People
Art
" A lot of the 'leave' campaign was centered around a thinly veiled xenophobia, just 'control our own borders.' It's not a good look. I don't think it represents Britain; I don't think it represents the U.K. all too well. It breaks my heart for my generation in Britain who are going to suffer. "
Think
Good
Control
" Anyone close to me will be familiar with my frustrations with certain aspects of social media: the behaviour it encourages and attitudes towards the self it can breed. "
Social Media
Self
Media
" As I listened more and more to the music that moved me, I gained more fascination with America. "
Me
Music
More
" 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. "
Happy
Me
Enough
" Being in a studio is quite a creative and energetic process. "
Process
Energetic
Creative
" Biggest musical influences would be people like Nina Simone and Tom Waits. A huge amount of writers like Leslie Feist and Paul Simon. "
People
Huge
Like
" Blues is a very physical music. "
Physical
Blues
Music
" By nature, I'm an awkward person; I'm a gangly introvert. "
Person
Awkward
Introvert
" By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz. "
Time
Delta
Jazz
" Certainly in the case of having to answer questions about where a song comes from, it's a hell of a lot easier when you say, 'I've removed myself from it.' But they start from quite a personal place. They always do. "
Start
Song
Myself
" 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. "
Constitution
Man
Marriage
" Especially on the road, it's very hard to find time to actually sit down and write. "
Hard
Down
Find
" For me growing up, I had a Christian upbringing, and I just noticed this Catholic influence in school. "
Influence
Growing Up
Me
" Governments do not care about your Facebook-assembled opinion. Incompetent politicians don't read your tweets; there are reasons for them being out of touch. Change does not come about for 'likes' on a page, though the ideas for it may start there. "
Out
Care
Change
" 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. "
Up
History
Words
" Growing up in Ireland, there are a lot of aspects of God that hang in the air. And my music reflects that. "
Music
Growing Up
Air
" I always thought of myself as a very, very obscure artist. "
Artist
Myself
Thought
" I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music. "
Person
Come
I Am
" I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly. "
Thoroughly
Religion
Faith
" 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?' "
Landscape
Growing Up
Friends
" I didn't know what to expect of real America. What shocked me was the diversity of it and how different every city is. But also just how polite and usually good-willed and optimistic most Americans are. "
Real
America
City
" I'd love to do something with somebody like James Blake. "
Something
James
Like
" I don't know if I'll ever get married. I have no plans to not get married. "
Get Married
Plans
Married
" I don't like false happy endings, and I don't think the real world is such a forgiving place. "
Place
Like
Happy
" I feel my duty is to make music. "
Feel
Duty
I Feel
" If I could, I'd sing old French songs or American folk music, but I sure as hell can't do it as well as Mississippi John Hurt - no way in hell am I getting near that! "
Hell
American
Old
" 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. "
Say
Wait
Thought
" If I fall into a city, I fall into a scene, and I just don't want to get distracted and enjoy myself too much. There's too much work to be done. "
City
Work
Myself
" 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. "
Audience
Think
Radio
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