211 Quotes by Sinead O'Connor

I'm a great cleaner. I'm actually kind of addicted to cleaning. I could clean anything.

There's a weighing kind of overemphasis on sexuality, which disempowers music generally, because it silences all the other voices; it makes music a very powerless force for changing the world.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It should be a crime to abandon your child, and it's not. It would be wonderful if it could be criminalized.

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