Andrew Hozier-Byrne Quotes
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There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.'
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The public discourse online is not done through the polite language of debate.
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I find lyrics can come at any time during the day, as can music.
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I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties.
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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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I wish I had more time to read. I'm always traveling.
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I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music. I'm not sure if every song will be 'Take Me to Church,' but I can only hope that people enjoy the body of work that I have ahead of me.
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I've been a total Tom Waits dork for a long, long time.
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I know I'm not the kind of music that's going to have tons of screaming fans, and I'm not gonna be everyone's cup of tea. I just want to do as good a job as I can.
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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.
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I never wrote music for the mainstream.
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I love a good party - but I'm not all that attracted to a celebrity lifestyle.
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My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.
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Being 16 is the worst time to be anybody, there is not enough tea in China to persuade me to be that young again. I wasn't very happy with myself.
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One of my first festivals was Oxygen 2006. It had this amazing lineup with the Arctic Monkeys on their first or second album, the Strokes, Kings of Leon, the Magic Numbers and then the Who and James Brown. I waited in the pit for a good eight hours to see James Brown.
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I figured the songs wouldn't make much of a splash. I didn't think 'Take Me To Church' would play on the radio or get in the charts, and I didn't think about dealing with a global audience.
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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.
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The best vocalists I can think of are female.
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Biggest musical influences would be people like Nina Simone and Tom Waits. A huge amount of writers like Leslie Feist and Paul Simon.
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I think it is important to differentiate between lip service towards something and actually making change.
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Blues is a very physical music.
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We all run the risk of thinking that people have common sense sometimes.
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Especially on the road, it's very hard to find time to actually sit down and write.
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I think my parents took me to see Sting when I was very, very young.