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. Sinead O'Connor More Quotes by Sinead O'Connor More Quotes From Sinead O'Connor Easy to keep faith. God is good. Only one mistake he made. Free will, therefore can't intervene unless we ask, but gospels show, when we ask we must believe we will be answered. Then all manner of things will be well. Sinead O'Connor free-willmistakebelieve I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life. Sinead O'Connor normalwishfame Protection of children from violence and abuse has always been my main activity or campaign. Sinead O'Connor abuseviolencechildren I suppose is very cathartic to do a show to the masses and you get to make magic in a manner that you can't do in regular life, but I suppose that self esteem effect is one of the most powerful. Sinead O'Connor magicpowerfulself-esteem I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don't need millions of dollars. Sinead O'Connor dollarspayneeds I suppose the biggest change to me is this kind of very oversexualizing of everything. Not that anyone wants to take the sex out of rock 'n' roll, you know - that would be ludicrous - but it seems that everything now, it's like the sexuality is the only voice; everything else is gone. Sinead O'Connor rocksvoicesex When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion. Sinead O'Connor holyemotionspirit It's OK to assert yourself. Obviously, as a woman, I do experience the consequence of asserting yourself - you're not supposed to assert yourself. Sinead O'Connor consequence 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. Sinead O'Connor spiritualsongpast 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. Sinead O'Connor designmotherwant I have always had a good functioning in my artistic life, but I had problems mostly in my private life, I got very angry with my boyfriends and stuff...I would probably have good reasons to be angry but the volume would be too high, just getting to some level of wounding that perhaps was not appropriate to the actual offence committed. Sinead O'Connor artistic-lifemy-boyfriendwould-be I think that music has been a great help to me and this has been confirmed by every psychiatrist I have seen. I would probably be dead if not for music. Sinead O'Connor psychiatristhelpingthinking When I grew up in Ireland in the seventies there was no such thing as therapy...I mean we didn't even have cappuccinos until 1998! So for me music was therapy, it was also the place where one could speak about himself, where he was allowed to speak about his traumatic experiences. Sinead O'Connor grew-upspeakmean I have no shame around the fact that I can be shot into suicidal feelings by certain people's treatment of me. I am no different to any other person, I therefore act as I believe any other person should be free to. Sinead O'Connor suicidalbelievepeople What I'm interested in is the protection of children from violence, and they are exposed to violence every single day in the form of, as it's called, the news. Then you wonder why the children are running around, doing the things in the streets, doing the things that they've seen the adults doing in the so-called news. Sinead O'Connor newsrunningchildren People often talk about me as a singer, but they don't often talk about you when you're a woman as a songwriter. Sinead O'Connor songwriterssingerspeople The music business is a place where the artists are all treated like we're working for the people who are working for us. That can obviously be exaggerated when you're a female. Sinead O'Connor femaleartistpeople 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. Sinead O'Connor wallrealitythinking As a parent, I don't really want my child to know about all this horrible violence that people seem to be wanting to tell them every time they go to buy some candy. Sinead O'Connor parentchildrenpeople 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
