Words matter. These are the best Damien Rice Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn’t exist.
The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers ‘yes’ because ‘yes’ is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I’ve been given as a person in this society.
A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.
I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment.
I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don’t see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don’t see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It’s not interesting to me.
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.
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
There’s a Nina Simone record that I love, ‘Live at Vine Street,’ and she sings flat on it. I can imagine she might’ve told the record label, ‘Oh, God, you’re not releasing that!’ But I’m glad they did.
I just don’t like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I’m not trying to be difficult; I’m just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.
There are a bunch of songs that I think are beautiful recordings, and I’m proud of them, but I’ve no interest in listening to them.
The thing running through me is the same thing that writes songs. It’s the fighter about to get into the ring. It’s like, I’m not here to entertain you; I’m here to get this out, whatever it is.
Inside, I’ve got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
