Andrew Hozier-Byrne Quotes
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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.
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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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I'm influenced a lot by Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, even Paul Weller - Billie Holiday as well: People who wrote and sang songs that were reflective of their times. I quite like that. I quite admire that.
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Growing up in Ireland, there are a lot of aspects of God that hang in the air. And my music reflects that.
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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.
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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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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've been a total Tom Waits dork for a long, long time.
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I love a good party - but I'm not all that attracted to a celebrity lifestyle.
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I wish I had more time to read. I'm always traveling.
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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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My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.
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I think it is important to differentiate between lip service towards something and actually making change.
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I never wrote music for the mainstream.
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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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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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I don't like false happy endings, and I don't think the real world is such a forgiving place.
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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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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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We all run the risk of thinking that people have common sense sometimes.
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I was definitely drawn to the mythology of one man, one voice, and one guitar.
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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.