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" I love Muddy Waters and Nina Simone. I also watched 'The Blues Brothers' movie over and over. "

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" The myth of fame and the myth of success is cultivated because it is monetisable and it is profitable. "

" I never wrote music for the mainstream. "

" I love a good party - but I'm not all that attracted to a celebrity lifestyle. "

" 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. "

" I just hate getting my hair cut. "

" I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly. "

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

" I'm not quite used to being seen through the eyes of fans yet. Being met with squeals and screams - I haven't gotten used to that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm not sure if every song will be 'Take Me to Church,' but I can only hope that people enjoy the body of work that I have ahead of me. "

" I think marriage is a scary concept. It's a scary concept for anybody. I'm not sure where I sit with that. "

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

" The more I come to L.A., the more it's amazing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You just feel like you're doing a job that you want to be doing, and then one day, somebody asks you a question like that: 'What's it like to be famous?' It doesn't really mean anything. The only difference is some people stop you and ask you for photographs. "

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

" To be honest, the biggest reason I write music and became a musician was to create the amount of joy that I felt about music to anyone else. To me, that's a job well done. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The public discourse online is not done through the polite language of debate. "

" 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. "

" Growing up in Ireland, there are a lot of aspects of God that hang in the air. And my music reflects that. "

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

" Especially on the road, it's very hard to find time to actually sit down and write. "

" I remember one of the first albums I got was an album called 'Thin Lizzy: Live and Dangerous.' "