Sinead O'Connor Quotes

I suppose is very cathartic to do a show to the masses and you get to make magic in a manner that you can't do in regular life, but I suppose that self esteem effect is one of the most powerful.

I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.

People often talk about me as a singer, but they don't often talk about you when you're a woman as a songwriter.

When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it

When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.

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 seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.

I have also Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and I wouldn't have survived that if not for music. So I think for me, music was a soothing thing and it was also a place where you could say all the stuff that you couldn't say anywhere else.

I think a lot of artists go waving their Grammies around thanking God for their Grammy, but when it comes to a pitch battle in the street for the honor of God, none of them is anywhere to be found.

I think in the first place hearing the music inside of you is very soothing, very comforting. For me there always been, if you like, a spiritual connection between myself and music.

When you live with the Devil you learn there's a God very quickly.

I've been married before, but I've never had my dream wedding in Vegas. I wanted to do it there because it's casual, quick, not religious and, most of all, very romantic.

My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ.

I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself.

There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as a songwriter. There's also simplicity in the songwriting. It's much harder to be simple than it is to be complicated.

You must not try to be too pure, you must fly closer to the sea.

I'm a very good dishwasher. I'm a terrible cook. I'm an awful cook.

There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about.

It should be a crime to abandon your child, and it's not. It would be wonderful if it could be criminalized.

Songs are like ropes that you can kind of hang on to or pull yourself up on.

I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It's a very special thing.

Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.

I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don't need millions of dollars.