When I was a teenager, I thought I'd know more when I was a man," Damien Rice tells Rolling Stone. "But now that I'm a man, I'm working on unlearning most of the things I learned as a teenager."
He told the music journal that he dumped a lot of stuff in the last few years, as he wrote songs for his new record, My Favourite Faded Fantasy, "because I was waiting for the lyrics to feel right."
"I was more interested in singing about where I wanted to go, socially or emotionally, as opposed to where I'd already been."
He says he does not want to be a robot. "I have spent some time learning, but learning does not imply understanding. I am more a student now than I was 10 years ago. I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers yes because yes is considered the appropriate answer.
"Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society."
