139 Quotes by Hozier

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

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.

I will play around with an idea for a very long time until it's found it's feet and it's good enough to become a song.

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?'

I'd love to do something with somebody like James Blake.

Things were never as exciting for me as the first gig in New York.

There is no singer I can think of who can touch Ella Fitzgerald. And when Billie Holiday sings, she's merciless about it. Her voice has just this immaculate sadness - even in happy songs, there was something that was so broken about it.

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

The more I come to L.A., the more it's amazing.