Irish - Musician | March 17, 1990 -
The way I did the first album... the way I wrote 'Church'... was just to trust my instincts with the music and let it kind of do what it does.
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Either somebody has equal rights, or they don't. And certainly in the Irish constitution, marriage is genderless. There's no mention of a man and a woman.
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I didn't even have that many close LGBT friends or anything like that, but I suppose it was growing up and becoming aware of how you are in a cultural landscape that is blatantly homophobic... you turn around and say, 'Why did I grow up in a homophobic place? Why did I grow up in a misogynistic place?'
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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.
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It was a rural upbringing by the seaside. A real quiet place surrounded by fields. I had to travel into town for school and stuff like that.
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The main thing is, I can't stay up late partying when I'm on tour. That's not good for my voice or my health in general.
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I'm quite tame as touring musicians go.
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It's a surreal experience filming promotion with Ryan Seacrest and meeting Top 40 pop artists.
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Religion wasn't imposed on me.
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I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.
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By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.
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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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