Sinead O'connor Quotes

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.

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.

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.

You must not try to be too pure, you must fly closer to the sea.

When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God.

Even when something terrible is happening You laugh And that's the thing I love about you most

there is no point setting out on a healing journey if you’re not going to find yourself healed.

I would advise any young person not to do what I did. Time passes quickly and you can’t get it back.

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

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.

Why conduct a war and then say “Sorry” when someone is dead? I

Sinead and Prince are right. Nothing, absolutely nothing can compare to the real stuff.

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.

if you could talk about music you wouldn’t need music,

Suicide doesn’t solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.

It was called “The Lonesome Boatman.” The most beautiful and haunting melody I’ve ever heard.

played on a sort of high Irish whistle, that they said Finbar Furey, the lead singer, wrote when he was twelve.

16. Love will tear us apart (Joy Division) 15. Ain't no sunshine (Bill Withers) 14. Sound of silence (Simon and Garfunkel) 13. My way (Frank Sinatra) 12. All by myself (Eric Carmen)  11. Yesterday (The Beatles) 10. Without you (Harry Nilsson)  9. Seasons in the sun (Terry Jacks)  8. Fix You (Coldplay)  7. My heart will go on (Celine Dion)  6. Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen/Alexandra Burke/Jeff Buckley)  5. Nothing compares 2 U (Prince/Sinead O'Connor)  4. I will always love you (Whitney Houston)