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I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

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James Vincent McMorrow
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: January 14
Singer-Songwriter
Dublin city
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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 think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.
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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 didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.
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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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Life is short. I'm here to make music, I'm not here to sit on a beach. That sounds really boring to me.
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You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.
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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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I've traveled quite a lot and become a coffee nut.
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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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Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.
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It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.
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Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through all of it from the time I bought my first record probably. It's always been there.
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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 have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.
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I feel if I wanted to be taken seriously I have to study music the same way someone who wants to be a doctor would study medicine. You have to know your craft and by doing so I had to make sure to ignore what people were thinking as well.
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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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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 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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