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

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

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" I find lyrics can come at any time during the day, as can music. "

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

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

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

" I never wrote music for the mainstream. "

" 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. "

" Growing up in Ireland, there are a lot of aspects of God that hang in the air. And my music reflects that. "

" I just hate getting my hair cut. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Things were never as exciting for me as the first gig in New York. "

" 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. "

" There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.' "

" The best vocalists I can think of are female. 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, who captured a lot of that very beautifully. "

" 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. "

" I'm quite sure I don't want legions of 15-year-old girls who call themselves, like, Broziers or something. My career isn't going to be that kind of a thing. "

" 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. "