Top 127 Quotes & Sayings by 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Nobody gets between me and my microphone.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I think that music has been a great help to me and this has been confirmed by every psychiatrist I have seen. I would probably be dead if not for music.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

You have to hide what you are and it's really stressful and very bad for your self esteem. Because it's not obvious to people that you are ill, they treat you as if you're a pain in the ass, then you beat yourself up and you are already beating yourself up as a part of mental illness.

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.

God is something that needs rescuing from religion.

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

In my belief, there's one spirit. I prefer to call it the Holy Spirit. I don't think it matters if you call it God or Allah or Jesus or Fred or David or too early in the morning or whatever.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.