Sinéad O'Connor Quotes

“I listen to, like, funky Chicago blues. I love blues, but I love the funky, happy blues.

There's a song about pretty much everything, including kidney stones, believe it or not. So there's something there for whatever you happen to be suffering, you know?”

“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.”

“I think people think they're not brave if they're frightened, and that's not true at all.”

“People often talk about me as a singer, but they don't often talk about you when you're a woman as a songwriter.”

“Protection of children from violence and abuse has always been my main activity or campaign.”

“Songs are like ropes that you can kind of hang on to or pull yourself up on.”

“The important thing about 'brave' is, it doesn't mean you're not terrified.”

“We're exposing our minors to abuse by the fact that they leave the radio on in the car and let them listen to the news on the way to school. Or the fact that it's shown on the news, the children can see Gaddafi's face and his glorious Technicolor clothes getting shot off on the news or on the newspaper shelves.

In the shelves of the shops where all the sex magazines are consciously put at the top, if they're consciously put at the top, that must mean the violence is all put at the bottom consciously.”