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 direction.”

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

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

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

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Remember what I told you. If they hated me, they will hate you.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don't need millions of dollars.”

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

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

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

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