Hozier Quotes

I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.

I grew up in a really rural area in Maryland.

I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.

I live way out in the country, in truck-country.

I grew up in Swaledale, in Iowa. Its population was 220 when I was growing up, and it's probably 150 now. I lived in town and sometimes worked on the farms outside of town in the summers.

Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

I was definitely very much a country boy.

I actually moved to upstate New York to the country.

I spent most of my formative years in rural Oregon.

I'm very fortunate and grateful to wake up every morning in the rural countryside I live in, looking at farmland and these beautiful mountains.

I didn't grow up on any sort of border; more in the middle of nowhere, in rural eastern North Carolina.

I grew up on a bayou. The small town that I lived in was, like, 10 miles from me. I grew up in the middle of nowhere.

I grew up in the countryside.

The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.

When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.

I grew up in Pennsylvania in a small town. Real small, like one high school and one movie theater. Well, there was a state college there, that was the only good thing about it.

I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano.

I've come to realize how much it really was a part of my upbringing, the Georgia part. We were away from town. It was just dirt and trees and spouses. And a lot of kids - my cousins, who were all like brothers and sisters to me - just a lot of kids at one time.

I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space.

I'm from a very, very rural place. There's really nobody out there, just roads and farms.

I love the smell of skunks. Driving down a back road and you smell a skunk that's sprayed or been hit. I love that. It reminds me of home.

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.

We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.

We did not go to that many movies in a theater in the little town I grew up in.