139 Quotes by Hozier

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'm quite tame as touring musicians go.

I had just discovered jazz, and I started singing in a kind of blues cover band at the age of 15. We called ourselves - it was a terrible name - the Blue Zoots. We couldn't actually get our hands on zoot suits, nor did we dress in blue. We did covers of Screamin' Jay Hawkins and kind of Blues Brothers repertoire stuff.

One of my biggest influences of all time would be somebody like Tom Waits. David Bowie is another huge influence. I'm also a big fan of St. Vincent and Leslie Feist.

It's a surreal experience filming promotion with Ryan Seacrest and meeting Top 40 pop artists.

I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.

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.

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

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