What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd really like to start doing.

Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important that they had a voice.

I always feel there is a link between music and spirituality.

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.

What I like about being a musician is that I find the thing soothing, but I also give the soothing to other people.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose. I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor.

I think people think they're not brave if they're frightened, and that's not true at all.