Sinead O'Connor Quotes
Top 72 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sinead O'Connor
Sinead O'Connor Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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 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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.
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.
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.
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.
Fame is a curse ... it was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I'll never have to go through again.
It's very hard to be perceived as a boss, and behaving like a boss or wanting to be treated like one.
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.