Sinead Quotes & Sayings

Remember what I told you. If they hated me, they will hate you. — Sinead O'Conner

They're my positive chaos, my children. — Sinead O'Connor

I hear the cock woke you up."
Eve choked on her coffee. "What?"
"Not that kind of cock." Sinead sent a sparkling look over her shoulder. "Though if that's true as well, good for you. I meant the rooster. — J.D. Robb

I suppose in some ways, all over the world "crazy" is a term of abuse and I think that is something that should be stopped. In Ireland "crazy" is a term of abuse and people are terrified of anything that they conceive to be crazy. And the people believed to be crazy won't be treated compassionately, they will treat you horribly and use it as a reason to dismiss anything you would think, do, say or feel, so you're rocking into a self esteem trap. — Sinead O'Connor

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

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. — Sinead O'Connor

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. — Sinead O'Connor

Generally I don't listen to sad songs if I'm sad. I listen to happy songs. — Sinead O'Connor

There is a God. God exists. — Sinead O'Connor

Islam - a religion horribly misrepresented by terrorists, which is like the IRA saying they represented Irish people. Islam is a BEAUTIFUL religion. would make you cry it's so beautiful ... and gentle. — Sinead O'Connor

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

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. — Sinead O'Connor

You'll be boarding the nine twenty-one commercial flight as Shirley and Roderick Cliphorn."
"Roderick Cliphorn?" Dan groaned. Only someone with a name like Sinead Starling would have considered that normal. — Peter Lerangis

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. — Sinead O'Connor

I always feel there is a link between music and spirituality. — Sinead O'Connor

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

It's so nice to be inspired by so many females - particularly the girls around me like Jess Glynne, Becky Hill, Sinead Harnett, Foxes - we all have similarities, but we're all very different, and I think it's nice that people are respecting that and noticing and enjoying us all equally. — Ella Eyre

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

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. — Sinead O'Connor

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. — Sinead O'Connor

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. — Sinead O'Connor

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. — Sinead O'Connor

Forgiveness is the most important thing. We all have to forgive what was done to us - the Irish people have to forgive. The African people. The Jewish people. We all have to forgive and understand the only way to stop the cycle of hate and abuse is not to allow yourself to get caught in it. — Sinead O'Connor

What I'm interested in is the protection of children from violence, and they are exposed to violence every single day in the form of, as it's called, the news. Then you wonder why the children are running around, doing the things in the streets, doing the things that they've seen the adults doing in the so-called news. — Sinead O'Connor

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 ... — Sinead O'Connor

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

Every pore of you is crying and you don't even understand why or what. I actually kind of died and got born again as a result of taking the meds and having a chance to, you know, build a life. — Sinead O'Connor

When you live with the Devil you learn there's a God very quickly. — Sinead O'Connor

Look at all our old men in pubs. Look at all our young people on drugs. — Sinead O'Connor

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

Minors should not be exposed to what is going on in the so-called news. — Sinead O'Connor

Protection of children from violence and abuse has always been my main activity or campaign. — Sinead O'Connor

But she is right, at least in this: Looking to promote oneself at the expense of other women, setting oneself up as a creature unlike any other, is paltry device, and one that has kept us women 'in our place' for as much of time as history can recall. — Sinead Murphy

It has been a pleasure to play with all these artists. Pretenders was a real highlight, but also Damon, aka Badly Drawn Boy, Sinead ... Ian Brown ... all of these people I learn from and love to work with. — Andy Rourke

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

There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about. — Sinead O'Connor

Nobody gets between me and my microphone. — Sinead O'Connor

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. — Sinead O'Connor

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. — Sinead O'Connor

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

Until everyone in this country over 35 has passed away, the theocracy will still be alive. And I am not actually of the theocracy, and that could bother people. I think I've probably taken a bit of flak for that, as well as being an arsehole occasionally, obviously. — Sinead O'Connor

Songs are like ropes that you can kind of hang on to or pull yourself up on. — Sinead O'Connor

We can love religion as we need rituals, but The Holy Spirit is a bird, free to fly and land where it likes. We don't actually need 'religion' in order to have a relationship with The Holy Spirit. Too many wars an violence over religion.We need to see it's all the same spirit and we are part of that spirit so we shouldn't be fighting over what name we call it. It's a free bird. — Sinead O'Connor

If there was acceptance of the mentally ill in the Catholic Church, the entire Curia would resign! — Sinead O'Connor

Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies, I will sleep with a clear conscience, I will sleep in peace. — Sinead O'Conner

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

It was the case in the 70s and 80s that people believed music could change the world. But now people aren't making music because they want to change the world; they're making music because they want to just make a ton of money. — Sinead O'Connor

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

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. — Sinead O'Connor

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

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

When you have mental illness you don't have a plaster or a cast or a crutch, that let everyone know that you have the illness, so people expect the same of you as from anyone else and when you are different they give you a hard time and they think you're being difficult or they think you're being a pain in the ass and they're horrible to you. You spend your life in Ireland trying to hide that you have a mental illness. — 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. — Sinead O'Connor

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. — Sinead O'Connor

We only get what we can deal with.

"The real voyage of discovery consists...in seeing with new eyes — Sinead Moriarty

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

every father wants to see his girls settled and not end up old maids — Sinead Moriarty

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. — Sinead O'Connor

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

The music business is a place where the artists are all treated like we're working for the people who are working for us. That can obviously be exaggerated when you're a female. — Sinead O'Connor

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

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

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. — Sinead O'Connor

I was getting a lot of pressure from people in show business about my being overweight because of medication, I was on 200 mg of amitriptiline. When I said this to my doctor, for some reason she took me completely off medication and she didn't really supervise properly. — Sinead O'Connor

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. — Sinead O'Connor

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

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. — Sinead O'Connor

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

I find that as a female boss in the music industry, it's difficult to actually be treated as if you actually are the boss and to have people act on your instructions and take you seriously. Like you call up people who are working for you and say, "I'd like to see such-and-such document," and they tell you that you don't need it. Then you have to spend time convincing them that it doesn't matter whether they think you need it or not, they're supposed to hand it to you. — Sinead O'Connor

God is something that needs rescuing from religion. — Sinead O'Connor

Sinead broke in. "The cops need to know what to do with Evan, Amy. What should I tell them?"
"Shoot to kill?" Ian suggested. — Gordon Korman

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

I think "God" is an off-putting word. I don't think there's a name for this. I think it's a presence that is best for us, but unfortunately, it can't intervene if we don't ask it, and religion has us talking to the wall because the god that religion is selling isn't the reality. — Sinead O'Connor

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. — Sinead O'Connor

God needs to get rescued from religious music. — Sinead O'Connor

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

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

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. — Sinead O'Connor

I'm a Holy Spirit maniac, yeah. When I say maniac, to me, a maniac is a person that goes around telling you what you should believe. You know, you have to believe what I believe, and I don't believe that. — Sinead O'Connor

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. — Sinead O'Connor

What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.' — Alanis Morissette

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

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

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. — Sinead O'Connor

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. — Sinead O'Connor

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. — Sinead O'Connor

When I grew up in Ireland in the seventies there was no such thing as therapy ... I mean we didn't even have cappuccinos until 1998! So for me music was therapy, it was also the place where one could speak about himself, where he was allowed to speak about his traumatic experiences. — Sinead O'Connor

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. — Sinead O'Connor

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. — Sinead O'Connor

I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once. — Sinead O'Connor

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. — Sinead O'Connor

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. — Sinead O'Connor

I don't agree with this romantic fantasy that people who suffer from depression are more likely to be artists. I find that I am more creative when I am happy actually. — Sinead O'Connor

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. — Sinead O'Connor

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. — Sinead O'Connor

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

How could I possibly know what I wanted, when I was only twenty-one? — Sinead O'Conner

You must not try to be too pure, you must fly closer to the sea. — Sinead O'Connor

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

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. — Sinead O'Connor