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" 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. "

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Come

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" It's funny: Your relationship changes with a song over time. After a year or so, you're a different person, so your songs, you don't connect with them like you did. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" The public discourse online is not done through the polite language of debate. "

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

" It sounds like I'm joking when I say it, but when I wrote 'Take Me To Church' and a lot of these things, I didn't think they would be hits. I thought I was writing for a potentially smaller audience. "

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Thought

" 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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Forward

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

" 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. "

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Think

Culture

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

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" 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. "

" My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding. "

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New York

" I feel my duty is to make music. "

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

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

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

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Something

James

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "