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Hozier

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 17, 1990

I had a fascination with the roots of African American music. That would have been my first education in music. I had a real passion for it. I wanted to play it, sing it. I could sing at a young age, but I started to teach myself bass guitar and started writing when I was 15.

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My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.

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I wish I had more time to read. I'm always traveling.

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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.

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The best vocalists I can think of are female.

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It's so easy to look forward when you're travelling; you spend your life looking forward, thinking, 'What's next? When do I get time to work on my music again? Or when do I get time to get my 'normal' life back?'

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As I listened more and more to the music that moved me, I gained more fascination with America.

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I'm not quite used to being seen through the eyes of fans yet. Being met with squeals and screams - I haven't gotten used to that.

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I was always drawn to gospel music and the roots of African-American music. It's the foundation of rock and roll.

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We have such a culture of discrimination and hatred, and one that has scapegoats and affects people so extremely. That's something that very easily crosses borders.

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I was definitely drawn to the mythology of one man, one voice, and one guitar.

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There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.'

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I was never academically driven in English, but, again, Tom Waits is a perfect example of an influence. He writes so immaculately and paints so perfectly a world and the characters within it. There are writers like that who are my influences: vivid and gifted storytellers.

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Biggest musical influences would be people like Nina Simone and Tom Waits. A huge amount of writers like Leslie Feist and Paul Simon.

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For me growing up, I had a Christian upbringing, and I just noticed this Catholic influence in school.

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Being in a studio is quite a creative and energetic process.

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I used to almost not look forward to recording, because it was like, 'Okay, what am I going to have to sacrifice?'

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One of my first festivals was Oxygen 2006. It had this amazing lineup with the Arctic Monkeys on their first or second album, the Strokes, Kings of Leon, the Magic Numbers and then the Who and James Brown. I waited in the pit for a good eight hours to see James Brown.

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I love making music, but if you make something that inspires somebody else to make something, without getting too airy-fairy, you've contributed to the zeitgeist in some way, and that's just an amazing feeling.

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I've definitely received a lot of support in Nashville; it's a huge music town. I like country music. Like any genre I'm largely unfamiliar with, there are elements I really enjoy and elements that go over my head.

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