'The places where we grew up, you'd stand out like a sore thumb if you thought you were in any way special' - Niall Horan on his rise and why Dermot Kennedy and Billie Eilish are the most exciting people in music right now...
"He’s a funny man, very naturally funny," Horan offers of his Scottish counterpart.
"Especially now, because if I’m a solo artist and I want to put out music I just can’t release other people’s songs. I’ve been offered songs but there’s no point in releasing a hit song that you have to go into an interview trying to explain and it doesn’t come from you. You’d see it all over people’s faces. I wouldn’t be able to do it. That’s why a lot of my music is guitar-based. I’m no rebel to pop music or whatever but I do try to put my own spin on it.
"I went through a break-up there last year or the year before but I didn’t want to dwell on it too long," Horan notes. "I probably would have gone to college at some point so I would have liked to have gone somewhere in Dublin; UCD or DCU or something like that. I don’t know what I would have done because I was still at that period where all I wanted to do was be a singer. But was that going to happen? I also didn’t really know what — I was like 15, 16 and still going to the career guidance teacher to see what she thought of it and all that stuff.
"Usually, to be right in someone’s ear, you have to sing it really loud but she’s done a really good job of it and she’s made me think, proper. Now when I sit down to write a song I try and think like I think she thinks." "Just chatting away — which I am — just chatting away to normal people, it’s cool if they pick up a guitar off the back of me doing it, or they take up songwriting. I get asked a lot about songwriting and I try to give them advice. Or they’ll be looking for new music from me, what I’m listening to myself. It’s quite a cool little relationship we have going on there. I don’t really think of it as like fan to artist, I just feel like I’m chatting away to some people online.
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