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Maria Doyle Kennedy Quotes

Maria Doyle Kennedy Quotes.

Sometimes, when you are not feeling really good is when you tend to write songs because you are internalising everything, and you are examining your thought process, and you are quieter and quite still, so it is when you write things down.
Maria Doyle Kennedy
I was inspired by my son on the song ‘The Most Beautiful People Are Broken.’ Life is an extra challenge for him. But he does it all with such great grace and courage.
Maria Doyle Kennedy
I think everybody likes to play the villain. They’re always much more interesting characters.
Maria Doyle Kennedy
Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.
Maria Doyle Kennedy
Nobody can raise your kids like you can yourself.
Maria Doyle Kennedy
Acting is something that I really love when I am doing it, as it is interesting and fun to pretend to be someone else, but I don’t ever miss it when I am not doing it.
Maria Doyle Kennedy
I didn’t go to drama school or anything, and I learned on the job. And it’s nice to have the chance to pretend to be other people. As a singer, though, I feel there’s much more of me in that. I’ve written the songs, I’m singing them, I’m exposing my feelings.
Maria Doyle Kennedy
Nobody in my family plays music professionally, but I definitely grew up around the culture of when my parents got together, as well as a lot of eating and drinking going on, they would also sing – they sat around in a circle, and everyone had a party piece.
Maria Doyle Kennedy