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Religion wasn't imposed on me.
Blues is a very physical music.
I'm always eager to make new music.
I never wrote music for the mainstream.
I'm quite tame as touring musicians go.
Art and music are the vehicle for the zeitgeist.
There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin
I wish I had more time to read. I'm always traveling.
I love a lot of Irish folk music and Irish folk songs.
I've been a total Tom Waits dork for a long, long time.
I'd love to do something with somebody like James Blake.
By nature, I'm an awkward person; I'm a gangly introvert.
I always thought of myself as a very, very obscure artist.
Being in a studio is quite a creative and energetic process.
When I first started to sing, I just swung at it with an axe.
I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.
Offer me that deathless death Good God, let me give you my life.
Things were never as exciting for me as the first gig in New York.
I think my parents took me to see Sting when I was very, very young.
Social media is an advertisement for the superficial extroverted self.
By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.
We all run the risk of thinking that people have common sense sometimes.
I don't know if I'll ever get married. I have no plans to not get married.
I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music.
I was definitely drawn to the mythology of one man, one voice, and one guitar.
The public discourse online is not done through the polite language of debate.
I love a good party - but I'm not all that attracted to a celebrity lifestyle.
I'm an awful control freak at times when it comes to production and stuff like that.
I like playing with light and shade. I like saying awful things in very pretty ways.
If you can say something beautiful in a very terrible way - I was always drawn to that.
The song is about asserting yourself and reclaiming your humanity through an act of love.
I don't like false happy endings, and I don't think the real world is such a forgiving place.
I love Muddy Waters and Nina Simone. I also watched 'The Blues Brothers' movie over and over.
Religion wasn't imposed on me. I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.
I spent quite a bit of time in choirs, growing up, and in the world-touring music group Anuna.
I remember one of the first albums I got was an album called 'Thin Lizzy: Live and Dangerous.'
It's a surreal experience filming promotion with Ryan Seacrest and meeting Top 40 pop artists.
As I listened more and more to the music that moved me, I gained more fascination with America.
My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.
I look at all good things with a bit of a dark lens, I suppose, especially with something like love.
For me growing up, I had a Christian upbringing, and I just noticed this Catholic influence in school.
The myth of fame and the myth of success is cultivated because it is monetisable and it is profitable.
I hate nightclubs, and I get fed up very quickly in crowded rooms. I enjoy being around people I know.
Regardless of the sexual orientation behind a relationship, it is still a relationship and still love.
There was a moment, a few weeks after I signed, that it actually hit me. I was signed to a major label.
Will there be a time when equality will exist? I think given human nature there will always be conflict.
I think it is important to differentiate between lip service towards something and actually making change.
There's not a lot of room for thinking in popular culture; there's not a lot of room for being conflicted.
I think marriage is a scary concept. It's a scary concept for anybody. I'm not sure where I sit with that.
Growing up in Ireland, there are a lot of aspects of God that hang in the air. And my music reflects that.