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.
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.
artist voice musical
The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually.
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.
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.
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.
differences feelings awful
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.
morning jesus thinking
In my belief, there's one spirit. I prefer to call it the Holy Spirit. I don't think it matters if you call it God or Allah or Jesus or Fred or David or too early in the morning or whatever.
religious spirit holy
I guess I'm a Holy Spirit maniac. I'm not a religious maniac. I love religion, but I don't like it.
believe spirit holy
I'm a Holy Spirit maniac, yeah. When I say maniac, to me, a maniac is a person that goes around telling you what you should believe. You know, you have to believe what I believe, and I don't believe that.
jesus believe thinking
This is how you know religion is failing because people think you're bonkers if you believe in God and also because it's so uncool believing in Jesus and everything.