“I never wrote music for the mainstream.” — Hozier Quote

“I never wrote music for the mainstream.”

“It's a very, very interesting experience to be talking to people who are such icons in their own right. When Adele came to a show, I was just talking to her, and at the time, I thought, 'I'm just having a chat with somebody.' But then I heard myself say, 'Oh, I was talking to Adele the other day,' and it's as strange as you'd imagine.”

“I remember writing lyrics for 'Take Me to Church' for a long time before I even had a song in mind for. It's not that I was trying to write that song for a year, but sometimes you just kind of collect lyrical and musical ideas and don't actually complete the song until you feel like they work together and have a home.”

“So many writers hated us because we represented mainstream America. Forget the music, they just didn't like the idea of us.”

“As I see it, there's mainstream comedy - and then there's me, out in the badlands.”

“Something on mainstream radio is very in your face with the vocals. I tried that, and it just doesn't feel like Washed Out. It's got to have that haziness to it.”