Sinead O'Connor Quotes

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

All of my life, actually, I had a real strong relationship with God, but I was always in the closet about it. The only distance out of the closet I really want to come there is having my tattoo or wearing my t-shirt.

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.

I don't want to go shoving what I believe down anyone's throat. Whatever I believe about Jesus is a personal thing, but it doesn't exclude all the others.

I guess there's a song for absolutely everything that could possibly happen to a person.

I know that I have done many things to give you reason not to listen to me

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.

If there was acceptance of the mentally ill in the Catholic Church, the entire Curia would resign!

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

I 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.

I don't want any man to have control over me.

You have to hide what you are and it's really stressful and very bad for your self esteem. Because it's not obvious to people that you are ill, they treat you as if you're a pain in the ass, then you beat yourself up and you are already beating yourself up as a part of mental illness.

Remember what I told you. If they hated me, they will hate you.

My favorite way of working is if somebody gives me a piece of music, because I'm quite limited as a player, so it's my favorite thing if somebody gives me a piece of music, and then I can write lyrics and melodies.

In my belief, there's one spirit. I prefer to call it the Holy Spirit. I don't think it matters if you call it God or Allah or Jesus or Fred or David or too early in the morning or whatever.

I love the Holy Spirit. I can't stand to see it being disrespected. It's been there for me at times when I really needed it. Therefore, I have a duty to stand for it is how I feel.

Nobody gets between me and my microphone.

The trouble when you have a job like mine is it's your social life as well, so I need to actually [find] something to do in my downtime when my kids are at school.

I'm a great cleaner. I'm actually kind of addicted to cleaning. I could clean anything.

I listen to, like, funky Chicago blues. I love blues, but I love the funky, happy blues. There's a song about pretty much everything, including kidney stones, believe it or not. So there's something there for whatever you happen to be suffering, you know?

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.

I suppose the biggest change to me is this kind of very oversexualizing of everything. Not that anyone wants to take the sex out of rock 'n' roll, you know - that would be ludicrous - but it seems that everything now, it's like the sexuality is the only voice; everything else is gone.

God is something that needs rescuing from religion.

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

People always complain, 'you never invited me to your wedding', but I prefer casual weddings.

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 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.

We're exposing our minors to abuse by the fact that they leave the radio on in the car and let them listen to the news on the way to school. Or the fact that it's shown on the news, the children can see Gaddafi's face and his glorious Technicolor clothes getting shot off on the news or on the newspaper shelves. In the shelves of the shops where all the sex magazines are consciously put at the top, if they're consciously put at the top, that must mean the violence is all put at the bottom consciously.

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

My kids really are my center. They create a beautiful chaos. It's always a nice chaos with them.

It's been seven hours and fifteen days, since you took your love away.

I suppose the danger when you have a job that involves writing is you can be a bit isolated.

People who express suicidal feelings are least likely to act on them.

I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.

God's place is the world but the world is not God's place.

That's my feeling - that real God and religion are two different things and that religion is trying to obscure what God really is.

I'm great at washing dishes and I'm great at cleaning the house and all that kind of stuff. I don't like doing it, but I'm.

Biggest lesson I've ever had in life is that blues had a baby and they named it rock 'n' roll.

As a parent, I don't really want my child to know about all this horrible violence that people seem to be wanting to tell them every time they go to buy some candy.

Fame is a curse... it was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I'll never have to go through again.

What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear.

It's very hard to be perceived as a boss, and behaving like a boss or wanting to be treated like one.

It's OK to assert yourself. Obviously, as a woman, I do experience the consequence of asserting yourself - you're not supposed to assert yourself.

This is how you know religion is failing because people think you're bonkers if you believe in God and also because it's so uncool believing in Jesus and everything.

Unfortunately in my case, because of what I do for living, here in Ireland is very hard for me to find a doctor who can just deal with me as a person, that can get beyond Sinead O'Connor. I had to go to England to find a psychiatrist for my case.

I am someone who really does believe very strongly in the Holy Spirit. I feel I'm someone who, since I was a very, very small child, of being engaged in a very strong relationship with the Holy Spirit.

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.

At some point the entire population of the earth is gonna have to look back at the kind of essence of spirituality which is basically caring about each other.