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
crazy self-esteem thinking
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.
way feels contributors
I feel that I was a useful contributor to society, and that I couldn't be a contributor to society in any other way.
pain thinking hard-times
When you have mental illness you don't have a plaster or a cast or a crutch, that let everyone know that you have the illness, so people expect the same of you as from anyone else and when you are different they give you a hard time and they think you're being difficult or they think you're being a pain in the ass and they're horrible to you. You spend your life in Ireland trying to hide that you have a mental illness.
self-esteem thinking people
I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.
giving people musician
What I like about being a musician is that I find the thing soothing, but I also give the soothing to other people;
reality men people
Look at all our old men in pubs. Look at all our young people on drugs.
dream wedding religious
I've been married before, but I've never had my dream wedding in Vegas. I wanted to do it there because it's casual, quick, not religious and, most of all, very romantic.
believe thinking catholic
I am catholic. And I don't like to see catholicism being brought into disrepute by those in charge who don't seem to believe in God at all... they act like they don't think God is watching.
depression voice bipolar
I had developed manic depression [bipolar disorder] ... and the main symptoms the constant voice in the head telling you to kill yourself.
suicide problem solve
Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.
devil
When you live with the Devil you learn there's a God very quickly.
artist choices age
You also said in Rolling Stone that your look is based on mine. The look I chose, I chose on purpose at a time when my record company were encouraging me to do what you have done. I felt I would rather be judged on my talent and not my looks. I am happy that I made that choice, not least because I do not find myself on the proverbial rag heap now that I am almost 47 yrs of age.. which unfortunately many female artists who have based their image around their sexuality, end up on when they reach middle age.
acceptance catholic church
If there was acceptance of the mentally ill in the Catholic Church, the entire Curia would resign!
world
God's place is the world but the world is not God's place......