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" I was never academically driven in English, but, again, Tom Waits is a perfect example of an influence. He writes so immaculately and paints so perfectly a world and the characters within it. There are writers like that who are my influences: vivid and gifted storytellers. "

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" 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. "

Hozier

Know

I Am

Feelings

" 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. "

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

Hozier

Faith

Thoroughly

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

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

" For me growing up, I had a Christian upbringing, and I just noticed this Catholic influence in school. "

Hozier

Influence

Growing Up

" 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. "

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

" I would love to get in trouble with the Catholic Church. I'm not religious myself, but my issue is with the organization. It's an organization of men - it's not about faith. "

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

" 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 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?' "

" 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. "

Hozier

Create

Music

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

Hozier

Come

Amazing

" 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. "

" Being in a studio is quite a creative and energetic process. "

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

" 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 hate nightclubs, and I get fed up very quickly in crowded rooms. I enjoy being around people I know. "

" 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. "

Hozier

Late

Voice

" I'd love to do something with somebody like James Blake. "

Hozier

Something

James

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

" 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. "

" 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'm influenced a lot by Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, even Paul Weller - Billie Holiday as well: People who wrote and sang songs that were reflective of their times. I quite like that. I quite admire that. "

Hozier

Wonder

People

" Much of social media can be seen as the 'News of me.' It's not so much a platform for connecting and sharing as it is a platform for advertising the idea of yourself you want to portray to others: the image of yourself you want to project. "

" 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. "

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

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

Hozier

Place

Happy

" 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. "