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 voice musical
The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually.
artist voice important
Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important that they had a voice.
artist way facts
The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.
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.
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.
artist people female
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.
thinking artist honor
I think a lot of artists go waving their Grammies around thanking God for their Grammy, but when it comes to a pitch battle in the street for the honor of God, none of them is anywhere to be found.
artistic-life my-boyfriend would-be
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.
closed songs
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.
links spirituality feels
I always feel there is a link between music and spirituality.
jesus believe want
I don't want to go shoving what I believe down anyone's throat. Whatever I believe about Jesus is a personal thing, but it doesn't exclude all the others.
sex voice rocks
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.
spirit holy duty
I love the Holy Spirit. I can't stand to see it being disrespected. It's been there for me at times when I really needed it. Therefore, I have a duty to stand for it is how I feel.
beautiful thinking needs
I think there's a lot that's beautiful about religion and very inspiring, obviously, but I do think that God needs to be rescued from religion actually.