Sinead O'Connor Quotes
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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.
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That's my feeling - that real God and religion are two different things and that religion is trying to obscure what God really is.
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I suppose the danger when you have a job that involves writing is you can be a bit isolated.
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I'm a very good dishwasher. I'm a terrible cook. I'm an awful cook.
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I listen to, like, funky Chicago blues. I love blues, but I love the funky, happy blues. There's a song about pretty much everything, including kidney stones, believe it or not. So there's something there for whatever you happen to be suffering, you know?
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You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.
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I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.
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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.
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There's a difference between, you know, God loves unconditionally in my feeling and religion loves conditionally. Religion spends an awful lot of time dictating who God can love and can't love.
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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.
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It should be a crime to abandon your child, and it's not. It would be wonderful if it could be criminalized.
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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.
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I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I only feel better because people aren't being so abusive to me about my weight.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think there's a lot that's beautiful about religion and very inspiring, obviously, but I do think that God needs to be rescued from religion actually.
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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.
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I know that I have done many things to give you reason not to listen to me
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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.
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I am catholic. And I don't like to see catholicism being brought into disrepute by those in charge who don't seem to believe in God at all... they act like they don't think God is watching.
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My kids really are my center. They create a beautiful chaos. It's always a nice chaos with them.
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There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about.
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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.
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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.
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