Sinéad O'Connor > Quotes

“Remember what I told you. If they hated me, they will hate you.”
― Sinead O'Conner

“Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies, I will sleep with a clear conscience, I will sleep in peace.”
― Sinead O'Conner

“But I think you’ll see in this book a girl who does find herself, not by success in the music industry but by taking the opportunity to sensibly and truly lose her marbles. The thing being that after losing them, one finds them and plays the game better.”
― Sinead O'Connor, Rememberings

“They broke my heart and they killed me, but I didn't die. They tried to bury me, they didn't realize I was a seed.”
― Sinead O'Connor

“If I hope for anything as an artist, it’s that I inspire certain people to be who they really are. My audiences seem to be people who have been given a hard time for being who they are.”
― Sinead O'Connor, Rememberings

“How about I be me, and you be you”
― Sinéad O'Connor

“Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality”
― Sinéad O'Connor

“In the church I felt really angry when all the people came to shake our hands. This was the morning before the day of the funeral. We were sitting in the front row. We’d never seen these people when she was alive. I was angry they hadn’t helped us. Or her. I didn’t know who half of them were. And the ones I knew made me feel angrier. They’d known. Not the details. But they’d known. And they hadn’t done a thing, but came now to shake our hands and tell us how sorry they were for our loss. I was tempted to ask, Which loss in particular? We’ve more chance of actually raising our mother from the dead some Easter Sunday than ever getting back what we really lost. Which is ourselves, years before now.”
― Sinead O'Connor, Rememberings

“You must not try to be too pure, you must fly closer to the sea.”
― Sinead O'Connor

“How could I possibly know what I wanted, when I was only twenty-one?”
― Sinead O'Conner

“When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God.”
― Sinead O'Connor, Rememberings

“Even when something terrible is happening
You laugh
And that's the thing I love about you most”
― Sinead O'Connor

“there is no point setting out on a healing journey if you’re not going to find yourself healed.”
― Sinead O'Connor, Rememberings

“They laugh 'cause they know they're untouchable
Not because what I said was wrong
Whatever it may bring
I will live by my own policies
I will sleep with a clear conscience
I will sleep in peace”
― Sinead O'Connor

“The whole time, I’d never seen, all you had spread before me. The whole time, I’d never seen, all I need was inside me. Now, I feel so different.”
― Sinead O'Conner

“I don’t define success as having a good name or being wealthy. I define success by whether I keep the contract I made with the Holy Spirit”
― Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings

“I have left some people out because I know they prefer privacy and others because I want them to be pissed when they look for their names in the book and don’t find them.”
― Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings

“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, Rememberings

“I just need to pay my yearly overheads, get shit off my chest, and not compromise or prostitute myself spiritually.”
― Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings

“Why conduct a war and then say “Sorry” when someone is dead? I”
― Sinead O'Connor, Rememberings

“Similar to Christ’s, rap’s mission is self-esteem for those “previously deemed shit.” So it’s as dangerous as Christ’s. Because a lot of kids of all manner are listening, and no one in the industry wants their top floors threatened by either the wrong skin color or the wrong mindset—that is, anyone who cares about truth. Kids are the market, but you have to keep them believing they’re worth less than the stars or they won’t think they need what stars are selling. Wait till you see. When showbiz execs realize they can’t kill rap, they will hijack it. They’ll make millionaires of impostor rappers who say things like “You can’t be like me.”
― Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings

“I now share the bedsit with C., my friend who won the Halloween fancy dress last year although she hadn’t dressed up. She’s having an affair with the singer from the Fine Young Cannibals. Apparently he is fine and young and having her for breakfast, dinner, and tea.”
― Sinead O'Connor, Rememberings

“if you could talk about music you wouldn’t need music,”
― Sinead O'Connor, Rememberings

“Joe plays guitar. He says he doesn’t play well, but he does. My sister plays harp and my younger brother plays drums. I always thought it would be brilliant to make one album together and call it Fuck the Corrs. But the fights would have made Liam and Noel Gallagher seem like pussycats.”
― Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings

“Awards make some people feel more than and some people feel less than. And ... music shouldn’t be such a competition.”
― Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings

“I don’t do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble.”
― Sinéad O'Connor

“It was called “The Lonesome Boatman.” The most beautiful and haunting melody I’ve ever heard.”
― Sinead O'Connor, Rememberings

“they did an instrumental piece, played on a sort of high Irish whistle, that they said Finbar Furey, the lead singer, wrote when he was twelve. It was called “The Lonesome Boatman.” The most beautiful and haunting melody I’ve ever heard. Such grief to have come from a child. It was like he knew my own heart. And no one in this place had ever known my heart.”
― Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings

“He’s a bit like someone who has been scalded and is running around looking for cool water to stand under. He can’t sit still. He’s addicted to working.”
― Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings

“There’s someone in the music too, it’s not a person Its hands reach out for mine, it isn’t human It’s dark blue and green and made of space It wants to put its arms around my waist It wants to dance with me and whirl me by It seems to know me but I don’t know why”
― Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings