211 Quotes by Sinead O'Connor

I feel that I was a useful contributor to society, and that I couldn't be a contributor to society in any other way.

When you have mental illness you don't have a plaster or a cast or a crutch, that let everyone know that you have the illness, so people expect the same of you as from anyone else and when you are different they give you a hard time and they think you're being difficult or they think you're being a pain in the ass and they're horrible to you. You spend your life in Ireland trying to hide that you have a mental illness.

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

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

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

I am catholic. And I don't like to see catholicism being brought into disrepute by those in charge who don't seem to believe in God at all... they act like they don't think God is watching.

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

You also said in Rolling Stone that your look is based on mine. The look I chose, I chose on purpose at a time when my record company were encouraging me to do what you have done. I felt I would rather be judged on my talent and not my looks. I am happy that I made that choice, not least because I do not find myself on the proverbial rag heap now that I am almost 47 yrs of age.. which unfortunately many female artists who have based their image around their sexuality, end up on when they reach middle age.

If there was acceptance of the mentally ill in the Catholic Church, the entire Curia would resign!