I think that music has been a great help to me and this has been confirmed by every psychiatrist I have seen. I would probably be dead if not for music.
Sinead O'ConnorMy creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work.
Sinead O'ConnorI guess I'm a Holy Spirit maniac. I'm not a religious maniac. I love religion, but I don't like it.
Sinead O'ConnorI love songs, and I love songwriting, and there's a standard of songwriting within Chicago blues in particular. I don't like the sad blues, necessarily; the Chicago blues is what I like, which is the kind of blues you can dance to.
Sinead O'ConnorI have always had a good functioning in my artistic life, but I had problems mostly in my private life, I got very angry with my boyfriends and stuff...I would probably have good reasons to be angry but the volume would be too high, just getting to some level of wounding that perhaps was not appropriate to the actual offence committed.
Sinead O'Connor