Sinead O'Connor
Sinead O'Connor
Sinéad Marie Bernadette O’Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra. O’Connor achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a new arrangement of Prince’s song "Nothing Compares 2 U"...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth8 December 1966
CityGlenageary, Ireland
CountryIreland
artist people creative
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.
stress thinking stuff
I have also Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and I wouldn't have survived that if not for music. So I think for me, music was a soothing thing and it was also a place where you could say all the stuff that you couldn't say anywhere else.
mean speak traumatic-experiences
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.
abuse chance grew
I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.
spiritual thinking comforting
I think in the first place hearing the music inside of you is very soothing, very comforting. For me there always been, if you like, a spiritual connection between myself and music.
children would-be wonderful
It should be a crime to abandon your child, and it's not. It would be wonderful if it could be criminalized.
song persons happens
I guess there's a song for absolutely everything that could possibly happen to a person.
song sad-song im-sad
Generally I don't listen to sad songs if I'm sad. I listen to happy songs.
children chaos my-children
They're my positive chaos, my children.
children abuse campaigns
Protection of children from violence and abuse has always been my main activity or campaign.
sex children school
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.
running children news
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.
thinking people brave
I think people think they're not brave if they're frightened, and that's not true at all.
mean brave important
The important thing about "brave" is, it doesn't mean you're not terrified.