Sinead O'Connor
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"...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth8 December 1966
CityGlenageary, Ireland
CountryIreland
Sinead O'Connor quotes about
closed songs
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.
truth mean thinking
Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.
simple people complicated
I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.
honesty wine mind
When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.
desire sexuality objects-of-desire
Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.
creative washing-dishes process
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.
caring essence earth
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.
emotion spirit holy
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.
doctors people pressure
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.
sea trying pure
You must not try to be too pure, you must fly closer to the sea.
graves feels
To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.
needs
God is something that needs rescuing from religion.
artistic-life my-boyfriend would-be
I have always had a good functioning in my artistic life, but I had problems mostly in my private life, I got very angry with my boyfriends and stuff...I would probably have good reasons to be angry but the volume would be too high, just getting to some level of wounding that perhaps was not appropriate to the actual offence committed.
swimming sea acting
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.