Damien Rice
Damien Rice
Damien Riceis an Irish singer-songwriter, musician and record producer who plays piano, guitar, percussion and clarinet...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth7 December 1973
CityCelbridge, Ireland
CountryIreland
song writing hungry
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].
eye
My eyes were closed, they're open now
break-up lying fall
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
became happened lost love music playing point recording sharing songs success
When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the writing the songs, the playing the songs and the sharing and the recording and experimenting. It was exciting. Then, this thing called success came, and something happened at some point where I became disenchanted, and I lost the innocence.
cog considered given lies neither politeness society underneath
I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.
famous guy loads money music sell serve wants
I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don't want that. I just want to be true. I want to be... I want to serve music. I want to be honest.
cleanse enables growing holding music shed
Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
bring business carve created desire dream inspirational life music quite reality turns
Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
abundance foolish future
I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.
bunch interest songs
There are a bunch of songs that I think are beautiful recordings, and I'm proud of them, but I've no interest in listening to them.
cold few hot hours intense jump recording sit soak stepping studio walk
Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.
building express feels full happens life order recording song
Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
curious life notice people seen train
I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.
front masked meet meeting people
I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and say hello, I want to feel like I'm really meeting that person, not a masked version. I want to give that to people when they meet me. You don't have to like it. I'm not looking for you to like it; I'm looking to be myself.