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" 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. "

Hozier

Media

You

Yourself

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Create

Music

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Place

Happy

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

" I tried to avoid anything that caused me frustration or grief or duress. I played FarmVille and procrastinated like all teenagers. "

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Frustration

Grief

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

" 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'm quite tame as touring musicians go. "

Hozier

Musicians

Touring

" The first time I heard Tom Waits, it was like everything just flipped. It was just this fascination with him. My cousin showed me 'Small Change,' and I just couldn't get over that this was a white guy singing. "

" 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?' "

" I'm an awful control freak at times when it comes to production and stuff like that. "

" 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

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

" I try to face things without regret, or make sure that I'm happy with things and leave nothing unsaid if 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. "

Hozier

Music

Head

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

" 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. "

Hozier

School

High School

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" It's a very, very interesting experience to be talking to people who are such icons in their own right. When Adele came to a show, I was just talking to her, and at the time, I thought, 'I'm just having a chat with somebody.' But then I heard myself say, 'Oh, I was talking to Adele the other day,' and it's as strange as you'd imagine. "

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

Hozier

Faith

Thoroughly

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

" 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 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

" 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. "

" 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'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. "