211 Quotes by Sinead O'Connor

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 h a v e a l l t h a t I r e q u e s t e d and I do not want what I haven’t got. I have learned this from my mother ; see how happy she has made me. I will take this road much further though I know not where it takes me.

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.

There’s a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as a songwriter. There’s also simplicity in the songwriting. It’s much harder to be simple than it is to be complicated.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose. I’m not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O’Connor.

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.

You can’t have a church run by people who don’t believe in God.

I’m on fire when I’m singing, I’m completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It’s a very special thing.

I think there’s a lot that’s beautiful about religion and very inspiring, obviously, but I do think that God needs to be rescued from religion actually.