Top 100 Sinead O'Connor Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “What pisses me off is when I’ve got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear.”

— Sinead O'Connor

52. “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

53. “They’re my positive chaos, my children.”

— Sinead O'Connor

54. “I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.”

— Sinead O'Connor

55. “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

56. “At some point the entire population of the earth is gonna have to look back at the kind of essence of spirituality which is basically caring about each other.”

— Sinead O'Connor

57. “My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I’m washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work.”

— Sinead O'Connor

58. “I listen to, like, funky Chicago blues. I love blues, but I love the funky, happy blues. There’s a song about pretty much everything, including kidney stones, believe it or not. So there’s something there for whatever you happen to be suffering, you know?”

— Sinead O'Connor

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

— Sinead O'Connor

60. “I guess I’m a Holy Spirit maniac. I’m not a religious maniac. I love religion, but I don’t like it.”

— Sinead O'Connor

61. “There’s a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as a songwriter. There’s also simplicity in the songwriting. It’s much harder to be simple than it is to be complicated.”

— Sinead O'Connor

62. “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.”

— Sinead O'Connor

63. “Unfortunately in my case, because of what I do for living, here in Ireland is very hard for me to find a doctor who can just deal with me as a person, that can get beyond Sinead O’Connor. I had to go to England to find a psychiatrist for my case.”

— Sinead O'Connor

64. “My kids really are my center. They create a beautiful chaos. It’s always a nice chaos with them.”

— Sinead O'Connor

65. “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

66. “My favorite way of working is if somebody gives me a piece of music, because I’m quite limited as a player, so it’s my favorite thing if somebody gives me a piece of music, and then I can write lyrics and melodies.”

— Sinead O'Connor

67. “I would advise any young person not to do what I did. Time passes quickly and you can’t get it back.”

— Sinead O'Connor

68. “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

69. “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

70. “Nobody gets between me and my microphone.”

— Sinead O'Connor

71. “It’s OK to assert yourself. Obviously, as a woman, I do experience the consequence of asserting yourself – you’re not supposed to assert yourself.”

— Sinead O'Connor

72. “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

73. “God is something that needs rescuing from religion.”

— Sinead O'Connor

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

— Sinead O'Connor

75. “There’s a weighing kind of overemphasis on sexuality, which disempowers music generally, because it silences all the other voices; it makes music a very powerless force for changing the world.”

— Sinead O'Connor

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

— Sinead O'Connor

77. “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.”

— Sinead O'Connor

78. “All of my life, actually, I had a real strong relationship with God, but I was always in the closet about it. The only distance out of the closet I really want to come there is having my tattoo or wearing my t-shirt.”

— Sinead O'Connor

79. “I love songs, and I love songwriting, and there’s a standard of songwriting within Chicago blues in particular. I don’t like the sad blues, necessarily; the Chicago blues is what I like, which is the kind of blues you can dance to.”

— Sinead O'Connor

80. “Until everyone in this country over 35 has passed away, the theocracy will still be alive. And I am not actually of the theocracy, and that could bother people. I think I’ve probably taken a bit of flak for that, as well as being an arsehole occasionally, obviously.”

— Sinead O'Connor

81. “It’s very hard to be perceived as a boss, and behaving like a boss or wanting to be treated like one.”

— Sinead O'Connor

82. “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

83. “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

84. “I’m a very good dishwasher. I’m a terrible cook. I’m an awful cook.”

— Sinead O'Connor

85. “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

86. “I’m a great cleaner. I’m actually kind of addicted to cleaning. I could clean anything.”

— Sinead O'Connor

87. “I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.”

— Sinead O'Connor

88. “I think people think they’re not brave if they’re frightened, and that’s not true at all.”

— Sinead O'Connor

89. “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.”

— Sinead O'Connor

90. “If there was acceptance of the mentally ill in the Catholic Church, the entire Curia would resign!”

— Sinead O'Connor

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

— Sinead O'Connor

92. “I really believe that God and religion is two different things.”

— Sinead O'Connor

93. “I’ve been married before, but I’ve never had my dream wedding in Vegas. I wanted to do it there because it’s casual, quick, not religious and, most of all, very romantic.”

— Sinead O'Connor

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

— Sinead O'Connor

95. “Biggest lesson I’ve ever had in life is that blues had a baby and they named it rock ‘n’ roll.”

— Sinead O'Connor

96. “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

97. “I suppose is very cathartic to do a show to the masses and you get to make magic in a manner that you can’t do in regular life, but I suppose that self esteem effect is one of the most powerful.”

— Sinead O'Connor

98. “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.”

— Sinead O'Connor

99. “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.”

— Sinead O'Connor

100. “It’s so hard to retain what your purpose is – or to even realize what it is.”

— Sinead O'Connor