I guess there's a song for absolutely everything that could possibly happen to a person. Sinead O'Connor More Quotes by Sinead O'Connor More Quotes From Sinead O'Connor That's my feeling - that real God and religion are two different things and that religion is trying to obscure what God really is. Sinead O'Connor realfeelingstwo There is a God. God exists. Sinead O'Connor god-exists They're my positive chaos, my children. Sinead O'Connor my-childrenchaoschildren My kids really are my center. They create a beautiful chaos. It's always a nice chaos with them. Sinead O'Connor nicebeautifulkids Unfortunately in my case, because of what I do for living, here in Ireland is very hard for me to find a doctor who can just deal with me as a person, that can get beyond Sinead O'Connor. I had to go to England to find a psychiatrist for my case. Sinead O'Connor doctorscasesengland I suppose in some ways, all over the world "crazy" is a term of abuse and I think that is something that should be stopped. In Ireland "crazy" is a term of abuse and people are terrified of anything that they conceive to be crazy. And the people believed to be crazy won't be treated compassionately, they will treat you horribly and use it as a reason to dismiss anything you would think, do, say or feel, so you're rocking into a self esteem trap. Sinead O'Connor crazyself-esteemthinking 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? Sinead O'Connor sufferingsongbelieve What I like about being a musician is that I find the thing soothing, but I also give the soothing to other people. Sinead O'Connor musiciangivingpeople I feel that I was a useful contributor to society, and that I couldn't be a contributor to society in any other way. Sinead O'Connor contributorsfeelsway Songs are like ropes that you can kind of hang on to or pull yourself up on. Sinead O'Connor ropekindsong It should be a crime to abandon your child, and it's not. It would be wonderful if it could be criminalized. Sinead O'Connor would-bewonderfulchildren Generally I don't listen to sad songs if I'm sad. I listen to happy songs. Sinead O'Connor sad-songim-sadsong I think people think they're not brave if they're frightened, and that's not true at all. Sinead O'Connor bravepeoplethinking I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems. Sinead O'Connor self-esteempeoplethinking The trouble when you have a job like mine is it's your social life as well, so I need to actually [find] something to do in my downtime when my kids are at school. Sinead O'Connor jobskidsschool My favorite way of working is if somebody gives me a piece of music, because I'm quite limited as a player, so it's my favorite thing if somebody gives me a piece of music, and then I can write lyrics and melodies. Sinead O'Connor playerwritinggiving 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. Sinead O'Connor voicesilenceworld It was the case in the 70s and 80s that people believed music could change the world. But now people aren't making music because they want to change the world; they're making music because they want to just make a ton of money. Sinead O'Connor wantpeopleworld The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually. Sinead O'Connor musicalvoiceartist It's very hard to be perceived as a boss, and behaving like a boss or wanting to be treated like one. Sinead O'Connor treatedbosshard
