Sinead OConnor Quotes - Page 3

When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it

People often talk about me as a singer, but they don't often talk about you when you're a woman as a songwriter.

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

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.

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

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

It's so hard to retain what your purpose is - or to even realize what it is.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I find that as a female boss in the music industry, it's difficult to actually be treated as if you actually are the boss and to have people act on your instructions and take you seriously. Like you call up people who are working for you and say, "I'd like to see such-and-such document," and they tell you that you don't need it. Then you have to spend time convincing them that it doesn't matter whether they think you need it or not, they're supposed to hand it to you.

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

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.

What I'm interested in is the protection of children from violence, and they are exposed to violence every single day in the form of, as it's called, the news. Then you wonder why the children are running around, doing the things in the streets, doing the things that they've seen the adults doing in the so-called news.

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

When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.

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

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