Andrew Hozier-Byrne (Hozier) Quotes
There was a moment, a few weeks after I signed, that it actually hit me. I was signed to a major label.
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I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!
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Many cats are the death of the mouse.
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A day with my kids is the best day.
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I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
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I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.
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Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.
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Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
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I was in Cannes two years ago at our 'U23D' movie premiere. I love the French.
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I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.
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I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.
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The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.
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I'm not a big lingerie girl. I see it, and I love it, and I appreciate it, and sometimes I even buy it, and then it never gets worn. It just seems like kind of a wasted middle step. Either you're dressed or you're not. What is this in-between stuff?
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You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.
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They wouldn't let me into Germany from 1998-2000 because I bumped into the chancellor's daughter on my skateboard.
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Two things are vital for me. I've always had people who protected me, and I've always had people who helped me. Before I decide, I consult with three, four people who I trust.
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There is absolutely a side of me that people don't know. I'm not myself on Snapchat or Instagram. That's totally not me.
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Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.
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Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.
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You know, the key issue is that city issues are not to be put in a box and say well, that's what the mayor wants. They're Canadian issues. Cities account for 75 percent of our GDP. If you don't have a plan for cities, it means you don't have a plan for the economy.
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Every band works differently. What we found is that the two of us have very much got a direction that’s similar. We like art. We live and work in a place that’s full of artists, and it has a big influence on us.
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There was a moment, a few weeks after I signed, that it actually hit me. I was signed to a major label.
