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" 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. "

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" I'm still finding my feet in many ways as a performer. I'm not an extrovert, and certainly the attention isn't what drew me to it, and I find that quite jarring at times. I used to stress a lot about shows and get palpitations before shows, but eventually you learn to love it, and it is a thrill. "

Hozier

Finding

Feet

" It's kind of strange to hear your songs sung back to you! You get a big insight into what people connect to, what's moving to people or what songs people are really into. "

" Religion wasn't imposed on me. "

Hozier

Religion

Imposed

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

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

" 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

" If I fall into a city, I fall into a scene, and I just don't want to get distracted and enjoy myself too much. There's too much work to be done. "

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

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

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

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

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

" Truth be told, I'm not all that comfortable with celebrity culture. That was always something that baffled me, the obsession over fame. I don't think that's a reason why anyone should get into making music. "

Hozier

Think

Culture

" No Facebook status is as worrying as a vote and no tweet is as noticeable as an angry cry from a crowd outside a government building. "

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

" I wish I had more time to read. I'm always traveling. "

" One of my biggest influences of all time would be somebody like Tom Waits. David Bowie is another huge influence. I'm also a big fan of St. Vincent and Leslie Feist. "

Hozier

Time

Influence

" 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. "

" Anyone close to me will be familiar with my frustrations with certain aspects of social media: the behaviour it encourages and attitudes towards the self it can breed. "

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

" It was a rural upbringing by the seaside. A real quiet place surrounded by fields. I had to travel into town for school and stuff like that. "

Hozier

Quiet

Place

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

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

Hozier

Sacrifice

Forward

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

" I remember writing lyrics for 'Take Me to Church' for a long time before I even had a song in mind for. It's not that I was trying to write that song for a year, but sometimes you just kind of collect lyrical and musical ideas and don't actually complete the song until you feel like they work together and have a home. "

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

" 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. "

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

" There is no singer I can think of who can touch Ella Fitzgerald. And when Billie Holiday sings, she's merciless about it. Her voice has just this immaculate sadness - even in happy songs, there was something that was so broken about it. "

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