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" 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. "

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

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" I think my parents took me to see Sting when I was very, very young. "

" I was essentially raised on blues music. 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. "

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

" I will play around with an idea for a very long time until it's found it's feet and it's good enough to become a song. "

" I've been a total Tom Waits dork for a long, long time. "

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

" 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?' "

" It's a very, very interesting experience to be talking to people who are such icons in their own right. When Adele came to a show, I was just talking to her, and at the time, I thought, 'I'm just having a chat with somebody.' But then I heard myself say, 'Oh, I was talking to Adele the other day,' and it's as strange as you'd imagine. "

" The best vocalists I can think of are female. "

" Some of the earlier stuff I did in studio with producers was very pop-directed, which I was uncomfortable with. "

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

" Things were never as exciting for me as the first gig in New York. "

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

" 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! "

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

" I just hate getting my hair cut. "

" 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. "

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" My hair grows into a fuzz ball - I just wanted it to grow downwards rather than outwards - but then I realized I couldn't play guitar with it that way. I couldn't do anything day-to-day without my hair getting in my mouth or my eyes or my food, so I just started tying it back, long before I knew what a man bun was. "

" 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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" I know I'm not the kind of music that's going to have tons of screaming fans, and I'm not gonna be everyone's cup of tea. I just want to do as good a job as I can. "

" 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. "