Video Games And Church With Hozier

By Michael Cerio

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- As we sit in the back of his air conditioned bus at the end of a muddy road behind Firefly Music Festival, Hozier recounts the video games he played as a youth in Ireland.

"I grew up in the nineties so Sega Mega Drive, Super Nintendo. That was my earliest childhood memories."

The world touring "Take Me To Church" singer once spent his afternoons playing GoldenEye tournaments with friends.

"GoldenEye man. Just hours of four-player GoldenEye. We used proximity mines. Hide in the corner, just lace the place with mines. You have to know the map well but just, mines everywhere." says Hozier. "I did go back and try to play GoldenEye recently and it's aged obviously a lot. But I don't know, there's a charm to it that I haven't seen in many games."

On this Father's Day in Dover, Hozier is just as passionate about remembering his father's influence as he is those forgotten systems. It was in sitting with him and listening to his record collection that brought him to that day's festival stage.

"I was through his collection I definitely kind of formed my tastes. That was what I listened to as a teenager, growing up listening to blues, and jazz, and soul music was really through his tastes and through the music that he had played. Definitely. If it weren't for that I wouldn't be making music."

It was Hozier's song "Take Me To Church" that first started gaining him fans across the U.S. in 2013. The lyrics detail his frustration with the Catholic Church and their stance on homosexuality.

He himself, is a Quaker and rarely attends church.

"I do for weddings and funerals. Mostly funerals. As a kid I was actually raised as a Quaker. It's a very different kind of service. I haven't gone to church in a long time."

With his set at Firefly Music Festival behind him, Hozier now returns to Europe for a string of shows, and will be back to the U.S. for more festivals at the end of July.