Aoife O'Donovan Quotes

#1. I really am planning on living to be 100. People ask, "Why are you so depressed?" I'm actually a very happy person.

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#2. Same if you had a bad show, it just rolls off you more easily.

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#3. My relationship to all my family in Ireland is more to family as a whole. It wasn't that we had a very specific one-on-one relationship.

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#4. The songs came from a more solitary place and I hadn't played them with many people before recording. So I just added the layers of people who are in my life, and built up the songs.

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#5. I love the idea of birds having human qualities ... I think all humans want to be birds so we can fly.

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#6. When I sang the line, 'Songs about Old Ireland.Songs about being young again.I wish I was young again,' twice people cried. I saw them.

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#7. It's not that I literally believe in magic or spirits. In my logical life I absolutely don't believe in any kind of mumbo jumbo. But I do have this belief in the greater magic of the universe.

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#8. You might not be riding high on a great show for as long because you didn't have people to share the joy with.

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#9. It's not a morbid thing, but I think I've never been afraid of death, which is maybe why I love writing about it.

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#10. I think the consistency comes from the parts.

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#11. I could hunker down by myself and listen closely to mixes, but then to be able to have a sounding board of peers to get advice and feedback.

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#12. I've always been fascinated by flight and the freeness of birds.

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#13. Maybe when I die and I'm thrown overboard, I'll turn into a mermaid.

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#14. I've always wanted to be thrown into the ocean when I die - to be rowed out to sea and thrown overboard into the Atlantic.

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