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
entertain running writes
The thing running through me is the same thing that writes songs. It's the fighter about to get into the ring. It's like, I'm not here to entertain you; I'm here to get this out, whatever it is.
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
eye
My eyes were closed, they're open now
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].
guilt records pay
They wanted to 'radiofy' what I was doing. I was also in a position where I was compromised. I was much younger and maybe it is because I am Irish but there was a guilt factor when the record company pays you a lot of money, you feel obliged.
falling-in-love sleep simple
When you go to bed at night, you get seven or eight hours of sleep. I've had enough sleep. I've rested, and it's as simple as that. I want to do it now. I didn't want to three years ago. I was waiting until it felt right. I wanted to get back to falling in love with my guitar again, and hanging out with my guitar like I would a friend.
song writing feelings
The songs I was writing still had lyrics or sentiments that didn't match what I was feeling. It was old, negative energy coming out of me still, but it needed to all get out so I could trash those songs and put them in the bin. And then I was able to let the new songs out.
want flow thread
I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
iceland littles path
When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
song writing needs
For me, the more I live, the more I need to write. The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
real moving kids
I feel like I'm moving from a world where I was creating fantasies that weren't real inside - and very often feeling really dissatisfied - to now living in reality for the first time in my life since I was a kid, and learning to appreciate where I am now while actually sitting with that reality.
suicidal may want
May you be satisfied to never know why-sometimes someone just wants to die.
sadness shy cry
Love tought me to cry. So come on courage, teach me to be shy.
grows hard knows
It's not hard to grow when you know that you just don't know.