Sinead O'Connor Quotes

What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd really like to start doing.

You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.

I don't want to go shoving what I believe down anyone's throat. Whatever I believe about Jesus is a personal thing, but it doesn't exclude all the others.

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.

I'm a very good dishwasher. I'm a terrible cook. I'm an awful cook.

The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually.

I suppose the danger when you have a job that involves writing is you can be a bit isolated.

You can't have a church run by people who don't believe in God.

I think a lot of artists go waving their Grammies around thanking God for their Grammy, but when it comes to a pitch battle in the street for the honor of God, none of them is anywhere to be found.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

They're my positive chaos, my children.

I know that I have done many things to give you reason not to listen to me

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

The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.

This is how you know religion is failing because people think you're bonkers if you believe in God and also because it's so uncool believing in Jesus and everything.

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

I feel that I was a useful contributor to society, and that I couldn't be a contributor to society in any other way.

I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.

It's very hard to be perceived as a boss, and behaving like a boss or wanting to be treated like one.

God's place is the world but the world is not God's place.

Nobody gets between me and my microphone.

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

I always feel there is a link between music and spirituality.

The trouble when you have a job like mine is it's your social life as well, so I need to actually [find] something to do in my downtime when my kids are at school.

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

My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ.

I guess I'm a Holy Spirit maniac. I'm not a religious maniac. I love religion, but I don't like it.

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.

Look at all our old men in pubs. Look at all our young people on drugs.

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

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

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.

I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself.

That's my feeling - that real God and religion are two different things and that religion is trying to obscure what God really is.

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.

There is a God. God exists.

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

Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies, I will sleep with a clear conscience, I will sleep in peace.