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" I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, who captured a lot of that very beautifully. "

Hozier

Affair

Fairy

Ideas

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" 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. "

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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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Sacrifice

Forward

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" It's a surreal experience filming promotion with Ryan Seacrest and meeting Top 40 pop artists. "

" 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. "

Hozier

History

Words

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

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Church

Strong

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

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

" It's kind of strange to hear your songs sung back to you! You get a big insight into what people connect to, what's moving to people or what songs people are really into. "

" I'd love to do something with somebody like James Blake. "

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Something

James

" By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz. "

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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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Finding

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" I just hate getting my hair cut. "

" 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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Happy

Enough