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" I hate nightclubs, and I get fed up very quickly in crowded rooms. I enjoy being around people I know. "

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" I feel my duty is to make music. "

" 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. "

" I always thought of myself as a very, very obscure artist. "

" We all run the risk of thinking that people have common sense sometimes. "

" Biggest musical influences would be people like Nina Simone and Tom Waits. A huge amount of writers like Leslie Feist and Paul Simon. "

" I think it is important to differentiate between lip service towards something and actually making change. "

" I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties. I spent quite a bit of time in choirs growing up, and in the world-touring music group, Anuna. It's a sound with very rich texture, voices singing together. "

" 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. "

" I'm quite tame as touring musicians go. "

" 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. "

" Social media is an advertisement for the superficial extroverted self. "

" I look at all good things with a bit of a dark lens, I suppose, especially with something like love. "

" I never wrote music for the mainstream. "

" The success of 'Take Me To Church,' I never imagined it. I never imagined that it would work on radio, that it would find its way onto the charts, even at home and certainly not in America. "

" 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. "

" I like playing with light and shade. I like saying awful things in very pretty ways. "

" I'm influenced a lot by Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, even Paul Weller - Billie Holiday as well: People who wrote and sang songs that were reflective of their times. I quite like that. I quite admire that. "

" 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. "

" Love isn't any one good thing; it's a very, very strange mishmash of emotions. Your love for somebody is, oftentimes, informed by the terrible things you might believe about yourself, and comparatively, the person you see them as is everything that you're not. "

" Blues is a very physical music. "

" I have very strong feelings about a lot of things. I am sometimes reluctant to come straight to the forefront with it. You know, first and foremost, I'm a musician. I'm a songwriter. "

" I don't like false happy endings, and I don't think the real world is such a forgiving place. "

" I think all that we would know of America back home is foreign policy, and maybe the snippets of the madness of political culture. "

" I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the 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. "

" I spent quite a bit of time in choirs, growing up, and in the world-touring music group Anuna. "

" There are a few Irish writers who have a very strong influence on me, especially on the 'Take Me to Church' EP. "

" It's funny: Your relationship changes with a song over time. After a year or so, you're a different person, so your songs, you don't connect with them like you did. "

" When I first started to sing, I just swung at it with an axe. "

" Someone had an eye on me as I was leaving high school. I had a chance to record demos, but they were kind of wanting to make a pop singer out of me, of the 'X Factor' variety. I didn't feel comfortable with it. I wanted to be a songwriter. "