I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself.
Sinead O'ConnorWhen you have mental illness you don't have a plaster or a cast or a crutch, that let everyone know that you have the illness, so people expect the same of you as from anyone else and when you are different they give you a hard time and they think you're being difficult or they think you're being a pain in the ass and they're horrible to you. You spend your life in Ireland trying to hide that you have a mental illness.
Sinead O'ConnorThe music business is a place where the artists are all treated like we're working for the people who are working for us. That can obviously be exaggerated when you're a female.
Sinead O'Connor