Damien Rice quotes

“Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again,”
-- Damien Rice

Source : "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

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“May you be satisfied to never know why-sometimes someone just wants to die.”
-- Damien Rice

Source : Song: Lonely Soldier

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“Stones taught me to fly, love taught me to lie, life taught me to die, so it's not hard to fall when you flow like a cannonball”
-- Damien Rice

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“My eyes were closed, they're open now”
-- Damien Rice

Source : Song: The Connoisseur Of Great Excuse

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“It's not hard to grow when you know that you just don't know.”
-- Damien Rice

Source : Song: Cannonball, Album: O, 2003

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“Love tought me to cry. So come on courage, teach me to be shy.”
-- Damien Rice

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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

Source : "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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“Love taught me to cry So come on courage! Teach me to be shy.”
-- Damien Rice

Source : "Song: 'Cannonball'". 1993.

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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

Source : "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

Source : "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

Source : "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 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

Source : "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

Source : "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

Source : "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

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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

Source : "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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