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
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.
song writing people
What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd really like to start doing.
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.
song simple simplicity
There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as a songwriter. There's also simplicity in the songwriting. It's much harder to be simple than it is to be complicated.
people singers songwriters
People often talk about me as a singer, but they don't often talk about you when you're a woman as a songwriter.
spiritual song past
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.
song believe suffering
I listen to, like, funky Chicago blues. I love blues, but I love the funky, happy blues. There's a song about pretty much everything, including kidney stones, believe it or not. So there's something there for whatever you happen to be suffering, you know?
song chicago kind
I love songs, and I love songwriting, and there's a standard of songwriting within Chicago blues in particular. I don't like the sad blues, necessarily; the Chicago blues is what I like, which is the kind of blues you can dance to.
song writing voice
We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.
song rope kind
Songs are like ropes that you can kind of hang on to or pull yourself up on.
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.