Sinead OConnor Quotes

The important thing about "brave" is, it doesn't mean you're not terrified.

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.

God is something that needs rescuing from religion.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

What I like about being a musician is that I find the thing soothing, but I also give the soothing to other people.

What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear.

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.

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.

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

Islam - a religion horribly misrepresented by terrorists, which is like the IRA saying they represented Irish people. Islam is a BEAUTIFUL religion. would make you cry it's so beautiful... and gentle.

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