I don't feel like me unless I have my hair shaved. So even when I'm an old lady, I'm going to have it.

I think "God" is an off-putting word. I don't think there's a name for this. I think it's a presence that is best for us, but unfortunately, it can't intervene if we don't ask it, and religion has us talking to the wall because the god that religion is selling isn't the reality.

God needs to get rescued from religious music.

There's a weighing kind of overemphasis on sexuality, which disempowers music generally, because it silences all the other voices; it makes music a very powerless force for changing the world.

You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.

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.

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.