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I don't know if I'm attention deficit, but I certainly am easily distracted by other things.

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James Vincent McMorrow
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: January 14
Singer-Songwriter
Dublin city
Deficit
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Attention
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I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.
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I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.
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I have a vision for everything that I make, but... I'm not that considerate about what I do. I do whatever is in my head and how it ends up tends to be the thing that it's supposed to be. It was never a premeditated decision.
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I feel the reasons my songs might seem dark is because of how I viewed the situations I was in and it was just something I always felt like documenting.
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I never looked at being a musician any different than waking up one day and wanting to be an accountant or a lawyer.
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I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.
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When I started out making music I thought it was about thrills and adding layers, but I realized I want to focus on saying the most with the least.
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With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.
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I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.
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I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.
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Food in Dublin has gotten immeasurably better than it was. When I was a kid, there weren't a lot of options. Now you're overwhelmed with options.
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Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.
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I'm an introspective human being and someone who likes to be alone in a room. The idea of going out and talking to people...there's something appealing about it, but also there's something that feels alien to me, as a cynical Irish man.
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I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.
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I approach every show from the same fundamental perspective: this is a conversation, and my job is to make people leave the show feeling like they've seen something singular. It's not about smashing someone over the head from the jump-off.
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I've traveled quite a lot and become a coffee nut.
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I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.
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I'm mostly a keep-to-myself kind of guy, but you slowly find yourself getting folded into the musical tapestry.
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The hip-hop aesthetic and the way it's produced always motivated me. Alongside that I was still wanting to make great traditional songs because I've never had any desire to rap. My love of hip-hop is driven by my love of rappers, but it was built out of my love of producers.
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