Quotes by Sinead O'Connor

About Sinead O'Connor:

Sinéad Marie Bernadette O’Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra. O’Connor achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a new arrangement of Prince’s song "Nothing Compares 2 U".
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To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.

Sinead O'Connor

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 direc...

Sinead O'Connor

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

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.

Sinead O'Connor

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.

Sinead O'Connor

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

Sinead O'Connor

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

Sinead O'Connor

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.

Sinead O'Connor

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

Sinead O'Connor

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.

Sinead O'Connor

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

Sinead O'Connor

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.

Sinead O'Connor

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

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.

Sinead O'Connor

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

Sinead O'Connor

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.

Sinead O'Connor

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.

Sinead O'Connor

Nobody gets between me and my microphone.

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'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor.

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.

Sinead O'Connor

Author Bio

  • NameSinead O'Connor
  • DescriptionSinger from Ireland
  • BornDecember 8, 1966
  • CountryIreland
  • ProfessionSinger; Composer; Musician