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

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

" I'm uncomfortable with selfies and status updates documenting mundane pieces of my life, which I don't think should be of interest to anyone else. "

" Certainly in the case of having to answer questions about where a song comes from, it's a hell of a lot easier when you say, 'I've removed myself from it.' But they start from quite a personal place. They always do. "

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

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

" 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. "

" As I listened more and more to the music that moved me, I gained more fascination with America. "

" 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?' "

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

" I never wrote music for the mainstream. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" If you can say something beautiful in a very terrible way - I was always drawn to that. "

" I think it all started with Nina Simone. When I was maybe seven or eight, I used to listen to one of her albums every night before I went to sleep. For me, her voice was everything. "

" I don't know if I'll ever get married. I have no plans to not get married. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I used to almost not look forward to recording, because it was like, 'Okay, what am I going to have to sacrifice?' "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Blues is a very physical music. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "