Sinead O'Connor
The important thing about "brave" is, it doesn't mean you're not terrified.Collection: Mean
God is something that needs rescuing from religion.Collection: Needs
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.Collection: Caring
You must not try to be too pure, you must fly closer to the sea.Collection: Sea
Songs are like ropes that you can kind of hang on to or pull yourself up on.Collection: Song
I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.Collection: Simple
I think people think they're not brave if they're frightened, and that's not true at all.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Artist
Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.Collection: Truth
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.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Hate
Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.Collection: Desire
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.Collection: Differences
That's my feeling - that real God and religion are two different things and that religion is trying to obscure what God really is.Collection: Real
I always feel there is a link between music and spirituality.Collection: Links
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.Collection: Abuse
I guess there's a song for absolutely everything that could possibly happen to a person.Collection: Song
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.Collection: Jesus
What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear.Collection: Women
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.Collection: Beautiful
When I grew up in Ireland in the seventies there was no such thing as therapy...I mean we didn't even have cappuccinos until 1998! So for me music was therapy, it was also the place where one could speak about himself, where he was allowed to speak about his traumatic experiences.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Pain
If you really ever love someone, that doesn't go away, although you wish it would.Collection: Wish
What I like about being a musician is that I find the thing soothing, but I also give the soothing to other people.Collection: People
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.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: People
I feel that I was a useful contributor to society, and that I couldn't be a contributor to society in any other way.Collection: Way
My kids really are my center. They create a beautiful chaos. It's always a nice chaos with them.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Stress
I think that music has been a great help to me and this has been confirmed by every psychiatrist I have seen. I would probably be dead if not for music.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Spiritual
I suppose in some ways, all over the world "crazy" is a term of abuse and I think that is something that should be stopped. In Ireland "crazy" is a term of abuse and people are terrified of anything that they conceive to be crazy. And the people believed to be crazy won't be treated compassionately, they will treat you horribly and use it as a reason to dismiss anything you would think, do, say or feel, so you're rocking into a self esteem trap.Collection: Crazy
You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.Collection: Spiritual
We can love religion as we need rituals, but The Holy Spirit is a bird, free to fly and land where it likes. We don't actually need 'religion' in order to have a relationship with The Holy Spirit. Too many wars an violence over religion.We need to see it's all the same spirit and we are part of that spirit so we shouldn't be fighting over what name we call it. It's a free bird.Collection: War
It should be a crime to abandon your child, and it's not. It would be wonderful if it could be criminalized.Collection: Children
People often talk about me as a singer, but they don't often talk about you when you're a woman as a songwriter.Collection: People
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.Collection: Wall
I'm a great cleaner. I'm actually kind of addicted to cleaning. I could clean anything.Collection: Cleaning
I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.Collection: Self Esteem
When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let itCollection: Lying
It's been seven hours and fifteen days, since you took your love away.Collection: Sadness
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.Collection: Jesus
Minors should not be exposed to what is going on in the so-called news.Collection: News
It's so hard to retain what your purpose is - or to even realize what it is.Collection: Purpose
Protection of children from violence and abuse has always been my main activity or campaign.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Song
The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.Collection: Artist
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.Collection: Jesus
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.Collection: Mistake
Look at all our old men in pubs. Look at all our young people on drugs.Collection: Reality