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" I don't know if I'll ever get married. I have no plans to not get married. "
Hozier
Get Married
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" I feel my duty is to make music. "
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" I had a fascination with the roots of African American music. That would have been my first education in music. I had a real passion for it. I wanted to play it, sing it. I could sing at a young age, but I started to teach myself bass guitar and started writing when I was 15. "
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" 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. "
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" It was amazing for me to even perform at the Grammys, but to do so alongside Annie Lennox was a truly incredible honor. "
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Me
Amazing
" Much of social media can be seen as the 'News of me.' It's not so much a platform for connecting and sharing as it is a platform for advertising the idea of yourself you want to portray to others: the image of yourself you want to project. "
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" Some of the earlier stuff I did in studio with producers was very pop-directed, which I was uncomfortable with. "
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" 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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" The myth of fame and the myth of success is cultivated because it is monetisable and it is profitable. "
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" 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 me to it, and I find that quite jarring at times. I used to stress a lot about shows and get palpitations before shows, but eventually you learn to love it, and it is a thrill. "
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" No Facebook status is as worrying as a vote and no tweet is as noticeable as an angry cry from a crowd outside a government building. "
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Building
Angry
Government
" 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. "
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Constitution
Man
Marriage
" I remember one of the first albums I got was an album called 'Thin Lizzy: Live and Dangerous.' "
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Live
" Especially on the road, it's very hard to find time to actually sit down and write. "
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Hard
Down
Find
" I'm always eager to make new music. "
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New
Make
Music
" 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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Got
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" Social media is an advertisement for the superficial extroverted self. "
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Social
Social Media
Self
" I love a lot of Irish folk music and Irish folk songs. "
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Music
" I'm quite sure I don't want legions of 15-year-old girls who call themselves, like, Broziers or something. My career isn't going to be that kind of a thing. "
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" 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. "
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Social Media
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Media
" It was a rural upbringing by the seaside. A real quiet place surrounded by fields. I had to travel into town for school and stuff like that. "
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Quiet
Like
Place
" You grow up and recognize that in any educated secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognize 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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Yourself
" I was always drawn to gospel music and the roots of African-American music. It's the foundation of rock and roll. "
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Music
Roots
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" I'm an awful control freak at times when it comes to production and stuff like that. "
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" 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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Popular Culture
Culture
Room
" I wish I had more time to read. I'm always traveling. "
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Always
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" 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?' "
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Time
Life
Look
" I like playing with light and shade. I like saying awful things in very pretty ways. "
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Light
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" I'm not cross about the idea of baptism; I just think the idea that when a child is born it is inherently sinful and carries sin and needs to be cleaned in order for it to be all right and all good with its creator, I just think that's an absurd notion. "
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Think
Sin
Born
" My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding. "
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Grounded
Lee
" There was a moment, a few weeks after I signed, that it actually hit me. I was signed to a major label. "
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Me
Hit
Label