Top 100 Sinead O'Connor Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

2. “There’s a difference between, you know, God loves unconditionally in my feeling and religion loves conditionally. Religion spends an awful lot of time dictating who God can love and can’t love.”

— Sinead O'Connor

3. “I guess there’s a song for absolutely everything that could possibly happen to a person.”

— Sinead O'Connor

4. “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

5. “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

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

— Sinead O'Connor

7. “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

8. “It’s been seven hours and fifteen days, since you took your love away.”

— Sinead O'Connor

9. “Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.”

— Sinead O'Connor

10. “There is a God. God exists.”

— Sinead O'Connor

11. “Generally I don’t listen to sad songs if I’m sad. I listen to happy songs.”

— Sinead O'Connor

12. “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

13. “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

14. “You can’t have a church run by people who don’t believe in God.”

— Sinead O'Connor

15. “Easy to keep faith. God is good. Only one mistake he made. Free will, therefore can’t intervene unless we ask, but gospels show, when we ask we must believe we will be answered. Then all manner of things will be well.”

— Sinead O'Connor

16. “You can’t solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.”

— Sinead O'Connor

17. “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

18. “We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there’s kind of a calling in Irish voices when they’re singing in their Irish accent.”

— Sinead O'Connor

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

— Sinead O'Connor

20. “In my belief, there’s one spirit. I prefer to call it the Holy Spirit. I don’t think it matters if you call it God or Allah or Jesus or Fred or David or too early in the morning or whatever.”

— Sinead O'Connor

21. “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.”

— Sinead O'Connor

22. “But I think you’ll see in this book a girl who does find herself, not by success in the music industry but by taking the opportunity to sensibly and truly lose her marbles. The thing being that after losing them, one finds them and plays the game better.”

— Sinead O'Connor

23. “The important thing about “brave” is, it doesn’t mean you’re not terrified.”

— Sinead O'Connor

24. “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

25. “You must not try to be too pure, you must fly closer to the sea.”

— Sinead O'Connor

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

— Sinead O'Connor

27. “Forgiveness is the most important thing. We all have to forgive what was done to us – the Irish people have to forgive. The African people. The Jewish people. We all have to forgive and understand the only way to stop the cycle of hate and abuse is not to allow yourself to get caught in it.”

— Sinead O'Connor

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

— Sinead O'Connor

29. “When I kissed you, you didn’t mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.”

— Sinead O'Connor

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

— Sinead O'Connor

31. “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

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

— Sinead O'Connor

33. “Maybe it was mean, but I really don’t think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.”

— Sinead O'Connor

34. “If I hope for anything as an artist, it’s that I inspire certain people to be who they really are. My audiences seem to be people who have been given a hard time for being who they are.”

— Sinead O'Connor

35. “I don’t believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.”

— Sinead O'Connor

36. “If you really ever love someone, that doesn’t go away, although you wish it would.”

— Sinead O'Connor

37. “Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important that they had a voice.”

— Sinead O'Connor

38. “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

39. “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

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

— Sinead O'Connor

41. “Every pore of you is crying and you don’t even understand why or what. I actually kind of died and got born again as a result of taking the meds and having a chance to, you know, build a life.”

— Sinead O'Connor

42. “I h a v e a l l t h a t I r e q u e s t e d and I do not want what I haven’t got. I have learned this from my mother ; see how happy she has made me. I will take this road much further though I know not where it takes me.”

— Sinead O'Connor

43. “I don’t want any man to have control over me.”

— Sinead O'Connor

44. “I’m great at washing dishes and I’m great at cleaning the house and all that kind of stuff. I don’t like doing it, but I’m...”

— Sinead O'Connor

45. “I am someone who really does believe very strongly in the Holy Spirit. I feel I’m someone who, since I was a very, very small child, of being engaged in a very strong relationship with the Holy Spirit.”

— Sinead O'Connor

46. “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.”

— Sinead O'Connor

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

— Sinead O'Connor

48. “I’m a Holy Spirit maniac, yeah. When I say maniac, to me, a maniac is a person that goes around telling you what you should believe. You know, you have to believe what I believe, and I don’t believe that.”

— Sinead O'Connor

49. “I love the Holy Spirit. I can’t stand to see it being disrespected. It’s been there for me at times when I really needed it. Therefore, I have a duty to stand for it is how I feel.”

— Sinead O'Connor

50. “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