Irish - Musician | March 17, 1990 -
You grow up and recognize that in any educated secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognize in yourself, and challenge yourself, that if you see racism or homophobia or misogyny in a secular society, as a member of that society, you should challenge it. You owe it to the betterment of society.
Hozier
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I try to be happy. I try to face things without regret or make sure that I'm happy with things and leave nothing unsaid if I can.
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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 love making music, but if you make something that inspires somebody else to make something, without getting too airy-fairy, you've contributed to the zeitgeist in some way, and that's just an amazing feeling.
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I was always drawn to gospel music and the roots of African-American music. It's the foundation of rock and roll.
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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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I tried to avoid anything that caused me frustration or grief or duress. I played FarmVille and procrastinated like all teenagers.
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It's so easy to look forward when you're travelling; you spend your life looking forward, thinking, 'What's next? When do I get time to work on my music again? Or when do I get time to get my 'normal' life back?'
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For me growing up, I had a Christian upbringing, and I just noticed this Catholic influence in school.
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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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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 was never academically driven in English, but, again, Tom Waits is a perfect example of an influence. He writes so immaculately and paints so perfectly a world and the characters within it. There are writers like that who are my influences: vivid and gifted storytellers.
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