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

" I never wrote music for the mainstream. "

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" Blues is a very physical music. "

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" I think all that we would know of America back home is foreign policy, and maybe the snippets of the madness of political culture. "

" 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. "

" I've definitely received a lot of support in Nashville; it's a huge music town. I like country music. Like any genre I'm largely unfamiliar with, there are elements I really enjoy and elements that go over my head. "

" I was definitely drawn to the mythology of one man, one voice, and one guitar. "

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

" 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. "

" I was always drawn to gospel music and the roots of African-American music. It's the foundation of rock and roll. "

" I'm always eager to make new music. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" Either somebody has equal rights, or they don't. And certainly in the Irish constitution, marriage is genderless. There's no mention of a man and a woman. "

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

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

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

" 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 way I did the first album... the way I wrote 'Church'... was just to trust my instincts with the music and let it kind of do what it does. "

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

" 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. "