Kodaline frontman Steve Garrigan said that his career choice in music worried his parents, particularly when he was too scared to tell them he had dropped out of college.
Speaking to RTÉ Entertainment, the All I Want singer said that: "I had dropped out of college and was kind of afraid to tell my parents that I didn't want to go to college, which is fair enough, I'd be the same.
"There was kind of like a few things happening like, but nothing set in stone, I played in pubs and all of that kind of stuff as well but, that was the first time I wrote (High Hopes) what I felt like a real song and it felt like it came from somewhere with depth and emotion and the first person I played if for was my dad
"And he was like a yeah its good, its good and when I finished, he kind of dismissed the whole thing and said are you going into college tomorrow.
"In fairness to him he is like the biggest fan.
"I got a publishing deal and then we got a record deal, it probably wasn't until we were on the Late Late Show or something, or probably like playing a festival in the UK or Glastonbury or something like that.
"Cause like our parents don't understand the music industry but then neither did we really and we kind of just go with it.
"And in school if you said you were going to be a musician or a song writer or anything in music the teacher would probably say that's not a real job so fair enough for my dad to be like saying are you going into college tomorrow?
"But yeah he sings every, knows every song and is at every show, like the biggest fan ever of Kodaline and so are all our parents."
Our Roots Run Deep, Kodaline's brand-new, stripped-down, 17-track live album and Fantasy Records debut, is due out October 14, 2022.
