Top 105 Quotes & Sayings by Dolores O'Riordan - Page 2

The first album didn't become successful until the second was practically written.

It's amazing to see anyone come out, let alone tell you they have been waiting so long. They are loyal people, our fans.

The things a young woman goes through between the ages of 18 and 20 are far different than what a young woman can go through between 20 and 22.

I was a full-time mom for seven years. You go back on tour, you're back in hotels, you're ordering room service, and you're getting an itinerary slipped under your door every,day. You're kind of thinking, 'Did I go home for seven years, or was that just a dream?'

It was great about the sizes of the audiences we were getting in America, but sometimes you feel like telling some of the men that you're not on stage to have your body looked at.

My mom always had a softer spot for boys, as a lot of Irish women do. If you were a girl, you'd have to sing or wear a pretty dress. But boys could just sit there and be brilliant for sitting there and being boys. It makes you that little bit more forward. Pushy. I was singing, always.

My kids mean more to me than anything I thought was important when I was younger.

People don't look at you singing. They go within themselves and listen. Music is about listening, not looking. That's why I wore these huge baggy dresses on stage with The Cranberries.

To me, life is a bit of everything. I have the band, I have my kids. Life is a big picture. It's not just your career.

I love to go home to my kids. I don't have that lull in my life when I didn't have them.

Each gig is brilliant and fun. When it becomes a routine, we'll take a break. There's no point in doing it if you don't enjoy it.

Luckily I don't have a sinful past, because there's nothing you can hide from your kids now.

U2 and Sinead O'Connor - I haven't a clue why we're compared to them. Apart from us all being Irish, we've nothing in common.

I was at that point where my children needed more than going around the planet in the back of a bus. They needed stability, they needed to build their own lives and relationships, and I needed to put my life on hold. I made my choice - I chose my children.

When the band were really big and we had massive hits, I was always stressed-out and insecure. I thought I wanted the band to be really popular, but when that happened, there was so much pressure to keep it going.

We were never a frivolous band; we prided ourselves on having something to say, and I think that's what gives your songs longevity.

I was so famous that I couldn't leave the hotel room. I remember looking out of the window at all these fans but just feeling so isolated.

One day we were in Limerick... and then, a few weeks later, we were being flown around to play. When we started, it was just a hobby. It wasn't any big ambition.

I write about what is getting to me at the time, about the things you need to talk about, but which would sound silly if you sat down and told them to your friend. I only write for myself, to get my emotions out. It's self-therapeutic.

I lived in buses. I didn't really have anything else. I didn't feel like a female, and I ended up really kind of isolated. Everybody thinks you're so happy and so wealthy and such a big star, but you're really kind of lonely and don't know how to stop it.

In 1997, we took time off, and that's when Oasis broke and Princess Diana died and I was home with my baby hating the music industry. People asked what I thought about the Spice Girls, and honestly, I was so happy to tell them I couldn't be bothered to care.

When you're on tour too much or on stage too much, you feel like you have to deliver and get this super-hyped vibe going.

I don't appreciate people invading my privacy.

I guess all bands get to that point where they run out of inspiration and just get bored with the chemistry.

The feeling that's in your heart all the time comes out spiritually in your voice and the music.

It's a great gig, really: getting on stage, playing the guitar, singing. For a living, it's super.

People look at you and see a product. They don't see a soul. They see an empty hole.

You want to be in control of a lot. You grow up. You sink or swim. I suppose I swam.

I enjoyed living in Canada, where my husband comes from, because I was treated like any ordinary person. I became a volunteer at my children's school; I went into the classroom. It was very grounding. I got sick of being famous.

You can't be in a situation where you are not happy. It's as simple as that.

I got to a point where I referred to myself as Dolores of the Cranberries instead of myself because I alienated my real self from what I became so much.

I didn't really know many girls, growing up, because there weren't many other people living around where I lived.

As you get older, it's good to open up and acknowledge that everybody has their scary moments, their negative moments. And in order to move on and find comfort and hope, you have to stop running from the darkness and face it. And when you face it, it's not that scary at all, and sometimes it actually turns around and runs away.

I remember when MTV first put 'Linger' in heavy rotation, every time I walked into a diner or a hotel lobby, it was like, 'Jesus, man, here I am again.'

For me, you can't be a big fat pig up there, slovenly and singing croaky and whatnot. You have to work.

The school I went to was so Gaelic that you learned how to play the tin whistle and how to Irish-dance in class.

I went very close to the edge, but it's nice to have been strong enough to get through it. I'm lucky I had family, a good husband, and my mom. People like that help balance you. When you're feeling down and bad, it's the people that love you who kind of sort your head out for you.

Not everybody wanted a female to be the front face of a big band, you know... You had to be three times better than a man had to be.

Everyone at school knew I wanted to be a singer. I'd always be banging on the piano playing my new song. The teacher would gather us round, and the whole class would listen.

It was tough. We went right from being teenagers to musical superstars with money and fame and attention. All of us had a hard time adjusting to it, especially me.

I was raised Catholic and I have a lot of respect for the good in the Catholic Church. But I don't go to church.

I am in no position to judge other women, you know. But I mean, why did she get pregnant? It's not good for women to go through the procedure of abortion and have something living sucked out of their bodies. It belittles women. Even though some women say, 'Oh, I don't mind to have one,' every time a woman has an abortion, it just crushes her self-esteem smaller and smaller and smaller.

I grew up with a very strong Irish accent.

I live as I choose or I will not live at all.

The evidence I see tells me the unborn is a human being.