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" I think it's very hard to write things about being joyful. I find that quite difficult. I think when you're happy, you don't want to write songs; you just want to enjoy being happy. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Religion wasn't imposed on me. I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly. "

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

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

" 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'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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" 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. "

" One of my favorite books is 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' by George Orwell, and 'Catcher in the Rye,' obviously, is a big influence and is one of my favorites. "

" It sounds like I'm joking when I say it, but when I wrote 'Take Me To Church' and a lot of these things, I didn't think they would be hits. I thought I was writing for a potentially smaller audience. "

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" I love a lot of Irish folk music and Irish folk songs. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I try to face things without regret, or make sure that I'm happy with things and leave nothing unsaid if I can. "

" You grow up and recognise that in an educated, secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognise 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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" There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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