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" 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! "

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Think

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Sadness

" 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. "

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

" By nature, I'm an awkward person; I'm a gangly introvert. "

" We have such a culture of discrimination and hatred, and one that has scapegoats and affects people so extremely. That's something that very easily crosses borders. "

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

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

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Personal

Try

" Regardless of the sexual orientation behind a relationship, it is still a relationship and still love. "

" 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?' "

" There's not a lot of room for thinking in popular culture; there's not a lot of room for being conflicted. "

" I didn't know what to expect of real America. What shocked me was the diversity of it and how different every city is. But also just how polite and usually good-willed and optimistic most Americans are. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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Sacrifice

Forward

" 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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Faith

Thoroughly

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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. "

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

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" Rarely do I finish a song lyrically before I have a musical idea there, but then again, rarely ever would I finish a song musically before starting the lyrical ideas. So a lot of the time, they come in tandem, or they just come at a glance. "

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

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

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" 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. "