Sinead O'Connor Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Hair, Old Lady, Feels

  "Sinead O'Connor Finds New Roots - in Jamaica". Interview with Debbie Elliott, www.npr.org. October 16, 2005.

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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.

  Sinead O'Connor

  People, Want, World

  "Interview: Sinéad O’Connor Isn’t Bossy; She’s the Boss". Interview with Sarah Toce, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2014.

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• 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

  Mean, Speak, Grew Up

  Source: www.stateofmind.it

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• 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

  Way, Feels, Contributors

  Source: www.stateofmind.it

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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.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Pain, Self Esteem, People

  Source: www.stateofmind.it

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• 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

  Dollars, Needs, Pay

  "Sinéad O'Connor: 'I define success differently'". Interview with Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

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• 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

  Stress, Thinking, Stuff

  Source: www.stateofmind.it

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• 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.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Thinking, Helping, Psychiatrist

  Source: www.stateofmind.it

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• 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

  Spiritual, Thinking, Comforting

  Source: www.stateofmind.it

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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.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Spiritual, Men, May

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  War, Fighting, Order

  "Sinead O'Connor on Pope Benedict and Catholic abuse scandal". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 26, 2010.

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• Nobody gets between me and my microphone.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Microphones

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

  Sinead O'Connor

  Suicide, Problem, Solve

  "Sinéad O'Connor explains Twitter suicide claims" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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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.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Children, Would Be, Wonderful

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

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• 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.

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

  Sinead O'Connor

  Wish, Normal, Fame

  "Sinead O'Connor to retire ...again" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. April 25, 2003.

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• 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

  Artist, People, Creative

  Source: www.stateofmind.it

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• It's been seven hours and fifteen days, since you took your love away.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Sadness, Fifteen, Hours

  Song: Nothing Compares To You

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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.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Real, Two, Feelings

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

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• 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.

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• 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

  Lying, Heart, People

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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.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Swimming, Sea, Important

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• It's so hard to retain what your purpose is - or to even realize what it is.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Purpose, Realizing, Hard

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

  Sinead O'Connor

  Cleaning, Kind, Clean

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Crazy, Self Esteem, Thinking

  Source: www.stateofmind.it

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