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Growing up, I always saw the hypocrisy of the Catholic church. The history speaks for itself, and I grew incredibly frustrated and angry. I essentially just put that into my words.

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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?'

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I love a good party - but I'm not all that attracted to a celebrity lifestyle.

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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.

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

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The best vocalists I can think of are female. 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.

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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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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Musician

Born: March 17th, 1990

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