In an interview with The Guardian, Hozier said his whole love for music started with Nina Simone. "When I was maybe seven or eight I used to listen to one of her albums every night before I went to sleep. For me her voice was everything." Like other current male artists including Sam Smith, it's great to hear a male artist heap such praise upon female artists. Hozier also sheds praise on St Vincent, Feist, and Lisa Hannigan. "The best vocalists I can think of are female," he said "There is no singer I can think of who can touch Ella Fitzgerald. And when Billie Holiday sings she's merciless about it. Her voice has just this immaculate sadness - even in happy songs there was something that was so broken about it."
I love Stephen King and music festivals; I eat my toast upside down; I daydream about getting married probably a bit too much; and I wish every day for a pet sausage dog puppy (who never materialises – sob).
