Latest Sinead O'Connor Quotes from Interviews

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• As a parent, I don't really want my child to know about all this horrible violence that people seem to be wanting to tell them every time they go to buy some candy.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Children, People, Parent

  "Singer, Songwriter, Boss: Sinéad O'Connor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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

  Sex, Children, School

  "Singer, Songwriter, Boss: Sinéad O'Connor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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

  Running, Children, News

  "Singer, Songwriter, Boss: Sinéad O'Connor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Minors should not be exposed to what is going on in the so-called news.

  Sinead O'Connor

  News, Should, Exposed

  "Singer, Songwriter, Boss: Sinéad O'Connor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Protection of children from violence and abuse has always been my main activity or campaign.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Children, Abuse, Violence

  "Singer, Songwriter, Boss: Sinéad O'Connor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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

  Consequence

  "Singer, Songwriter, Boss: Sinéad O'Connor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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

  Artist, People, Female

  "Singer, Songwriter, Boss: Sinéad O'Connor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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

  People, Singers, Songwriters

  "Singer, Songwriter, Boss: Sinéad O'Connor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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

  Thinking, Hands, People

• 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

  Real, Two, Feelings

  "Singer, Songwriter, Boss: Sinéad O'Connor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• There is a God. God exists.

  Sinead O'Connor

  God Exists

  "Singer, Songwriter, Boss: Sinéad O'Connor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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

  Wall, Reality, Thinking

  "Singer, Songwriter, Boss: Sinéad O'Connor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• They're my positive chaos, my children.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Children, Chaos, My Children

• Biggest lesson I've ever had in life is that blues had a baby and they named it rock 'n' roll.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Baby, Rocks, Rock N Roll

  "Singer, Songwriter, Boss: Sinéad O'Connor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• My kids really are my center. They create a beautiful chaos. It's always a nice chaos with them.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Beautiful, Nice, Kids

  "Singer, Songwriter, Boss: Sinéad O'Connor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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

  Sinead O'Connor

  Song, Rope, Kind

  "Singer, Songwriter, Boss: Sinéad O'Connor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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?

  Sinead O'Connor

  Song, Believe, Suffering

  "Singer, Songwriter, Boss: Sinéad O'Connor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I guess there's a song for absolutely everything that could possibly happen to a person.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Song, Persons, Happens

  "Singer, Songwriter, Boss: Sinéad O'Connor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Generally I don't listen to sad songs if I'm sad. I listen to happy songs.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Song, Sad Song, I'm Sad

• 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

  Children, Would Be, Wonderful

  "Singer, Songwriter, Boss: Sinéad O'Connor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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

  Sinead O'Connor

  Mean, Brave, Important

  "Singer, Songwriter, Boss: Sinéad O'Connor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I think people think they're not brave if they're frightened, and that's not true at all.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Thinking, People, Brave

  "Singer, Songwriter, Boss: Sinéad O'Connor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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

  Doctors, England, Cases

  Source: www.stateofmind.it

• 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

  Doctors, People, Pressure

  Source: www.stateofmind.it

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

  Sinead O'Connor

  Acceptance, Catholic, Church

  Source: www.stateofmind.it