Damien Rice Quotes

• Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.

  Damien Rice

  Order, Steps, How To Love

  "Damien Rice announces new album after an eight-year absence" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2014.

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• 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.

  Damien Rice

  Insecure, Insecurity, Skins

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• It's not hard to grow when you know that you just don't know.

  Damien Rice

  Grows, Knows, Hard

  Song: Cannonball, Album: O, 2003

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• May you be satisfied to never know why-sometimes someone just wants to die.

  Damien Rice

  Suicidal, May, Want

  Song: Lonely Soldier

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• Love taught me to cry
  So come on courage!
  Teach me to be shy.

  Damien Rice

  Sadness, Shy, Cry

  "Song: 'Cannonball'". 1993.

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• For me, the more I live, the more I need to write. 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.

  Damien Rice

  Song, Writing, Comfort

  "The sensation of writing is the same for me as taking a pee". Interview with Sarah Rowland, www.esquire.com. November 11, 2014.

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• I feel like I'm moving from a world where I was creating fantasies that weren't real inside - and very often feeling really dissatisfied - to now living in reality for the first time in my life since I was a kid, and learning to appreciate where I am now while actually sitting with that reality.

  Damien Rice

  Real, Moving, Kids

  "The sensation of writing is the same for me as taking a pee". Interview with Sarah Rowland, www.esquire.com. November 11, 2014.

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• Stones taught me to fly
  Love taught me to lie
  And life taught me to die
  So it's not hard to fall
  When you float like a cannonball.

  Damien Rice

  Break Up, Lying, Fall

  "Song: 'Cannonball'". 2002.

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• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  Damien Rice

  Want, Flow, Stage

  "The sensation of writing is the same for me as taking a pee". Interview with Sarah Rowland, www.esquire.com. November 11, 2014.

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• My eyes were closed, they're open now

  Damien Rice

  Eye

  Song: The Connoisseur Of Great Excuse

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• When you go to bed at night, you get seven or eight hours of sleep. I've had enough sleep. I've rested, and it's as simple as that. I want to do it now. I didn't want to three years ago. I was waiting until it felt right. I wanted to get back to falling in love with my guitar again, and hanging out with my guitar like I would a friend.

  Damien Rice

  Falling In Love, Sleep, Simple

  "The sensation of writing is the same for me as taking a pee". Interview with Sarah Rowland, www.esquire.com. November 11, 2014.

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• I had to take a bit of a break and fast for a while, but then I found myself very, very hungry when I got back to [song-writing].

  Damien Rice

  Song, Writing, Hungry

  "The sensation of writing is the same for me as taking a pee". Interview with Sarah Rowland, www.esquire.com. November 11, 2014.

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• 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.

  Damien Rice

  Iceland, Littles, Path

  "The sensation of writing is the same for me as taking a pee". Interview with Sarah Rowland, www.esquire.com. November 11, 2014.

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• They wanted to 'radiofy' what I was doing. I was also in a position where I was compromised. I was much younger and maybe it is because I am Irish but there was a guilt factor when the record company pays you a lot of money, you feel obliged.

  Damien Rice

  Guilt, Records, Pay

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• The songs I was writing still had lyrics or sentiments that didn't match what I was feeling. It was old, negative energy coming out of me still, but it needed to all get out so I could trash those songs and put them in the bin. And then I was able to let the new songs out.

  Damien Rice

  Song, Writing, Feelings

  "The sensation of writing is the same for me as taking a pee". Interview with Sarah Rowland, www.esquire.com. November 11, 2014.

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