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Nobody gets between me and my microphone.

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

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.

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

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

I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is a God. God exists.

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

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 ...

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

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.

Protection of children from violence and abuse has always been my main activity or campaign.

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 feel that I was a useful contributor to society, and that I couldn't be a contributor to society in any other way.

I guess I'm a Holy Spirit maniac. I'm not a religious maniac. I love religion, but I don't like it.

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

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.

Look at all our old men in pubs. Look at all our young people on drugs.

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.

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

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.

The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually.

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.

The important thing about "brave" is, it doesn't mean you're not terrified.

I really believe that God and religion is two different things.

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.

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

The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.

They're my positive chaos, my children.

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

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

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

Generally I don't listen to sad songs if I'm sad. I listen to happy songs.

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

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

When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality

You can't have a church run by people who don't believe in God.

I think people think they're not brave if they're frightened, and that's not true at all.

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

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

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

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.

It's so hard to retain what your purpose is - or to even realize what it is.

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

God needs to get rescued from religious music.

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

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

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

God is something that needs rescuing from religion.

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

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

Minors should not be exposed to what is going on in the so-called news.

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

Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.

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

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

If you really ever love someone, that doesn't go away, although you wish it would.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.