53 Quotes by Damien Rice

My eyes were closed, they’re open now.

The songs I was writing still had lyrics or sentiments that didn’t match what I was feeling. It was old, negative energy coming out of me still, but it needed to all get out so I could trash those songs and put them in the bin. And then I was able to let the new songs out.

I feel like I’m moving from a world where I was creating fantasies that weren’t real inside – and very often feeling really dissatisfied – to now living in reality for the first time in my life since I was a kid, and learning to appreciate where I am now while actually sitting with that reality.

When I’m in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

They wanted to ‘radiofy’ what I was doing. I was also in a position where I was compromised. I was much younger and maybe it is because I am Irish but there was a guilt factor when the record company pays you a lot of money, you feel obliged.

You know when you’ve found it that’s something I’ve learned, cause you feel it when they take it away.

Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.

Everyone is capable of everything.