Quotes from Hozier

It was amazing for me to even perform at the Grammys, but to do so alongside Annie Lennox was a truly incredible honor.

I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to growing up was John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters. It's music that feels like home to me.

I love Muddy Waters and Nina Simone. I also watched 'The Blues Brothers' movie over and over.

I don't know if I'll ever get married. I have no plans to not get married.

We all run the risk of thinking that people have common sense sometimes.

I didn't know what to expect of real America. What shocked me was the diversity of it and how different every city is. But also just how polite and usually good-willed and optimistic most Americans are.

I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music.

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.

I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, who captured a lot of that very beautifully.

Rarely do I finish a song lyrically before I have a musical idea there, but then again, rarely ever would I finish a song musically before starting the lyrical ideas. So a lot of the time, they come in tandem, or they just come at a glance.

When you play to an audience, you come away energized. It's the promo that really breaks an artist. Some lad sitting on a box trying to create a drum sound in a dry little studio. Everyone goes, 'Great - okay, now on with my day.' You go back to the bus, and you weep.

To be honest, the biggest reason I write music and became a musician was to create the amount of joy that I felt about music to anyone else. To me, that's a job well done.

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.

Offer me that deathless death Good God, let me give you my life.

It's funny: Your relationship changes with a song over time. After a year or so, you're a different person, so your songs, you don't connect with them like you did.

If I fall into a city, I fall into a scene, and I just don't want to get distracted and enjoy myself too much. There's too much work to be done.

I tried to avoid anything that caused me frustration or grief or duress. I played FarmVille and procrastinated like all teenagers.

By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.

The public discourse online is not done through the polite language of debate.

I think all that we would know of America back home is foreign policy, and maybe the snippets of the madness of political culture.

I'm an awful control freak at times when it comes to production and stuff like that.

I don't like false happy endings, and I don't think the real world is such a forgiving place.

I hate nightclubs, and I get fed up very quickly in crowded rooms. I enjoy being around people I know.

I spent quite a bit of time in choirs, growing up, and in the world-touring music group Anuna.