Sinead O'Connor Quotes

1. I didn't want to be a f***ing pop star. I wanted to be a protest singer.

2. 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.

3. I think there's a difference between God and religion.

4. (on her hair) I've been trying to grow it, but someone came up to me and asked if I was Enya. I was so shocked, I shaved all my hair off.

5. 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.






6. I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once.

7. 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.

8. 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.






9. For me, this is a song about love and sex. It's certainly one of the sexiest songs that I've ever heard.

10. If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.

11. I have no shame around the fact that I can be shot into suicidal feelings by certain people's treatment of me. I am no different to any other person, I therefore act as I believe any other person should be free to.

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

13. To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.


14. Nobody gets between me and my microphone.


15. I cannot put in danger the lives of my two children, my musicians and my technicians, so I have decided to cancel this concert.

16. 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.

17. My 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.

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

19. If Ireland had not been invaded by the English, which was done for money, the Irish people wouldn't be in the amount of trouble that they are in at the moment and I wouldn't have been abused as a child...and neither would anybody else. So what I am saying is that through my own personal experience, I've learned that success has made a failure of our home.

20. As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins.



21. 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.

22. As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose.




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

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

25. I only feel better because people aren't being so abusive to me about my weight.

26. 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.

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

28. I was longing for hymns and religious songs that weren't so boring and that also didn't perpetuate this kind of false idea of God, which I felt Catholicism did at the time. So I was always interested in the idea of rescuing God from religion and the idea of singing as prayer. Rasta music is the only kind of music that I think really gets that across. You feel the spirit of God alive in that music.

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




30. We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

31. 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.


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

33. God's children deserving to sleep safe.


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

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

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


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