Quotes from Sinead O'Connor

People who express suicidal feelings are least likely to act on them.

My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work.

My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ.

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.

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.

Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies, I will sleep with a clear conscience, I will sleep in peace.

There is a God. God exists.

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.

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.

God's place is the world but the world is not God's place.

That's my feeling - that real God and religion are two different things and that religion is trying to obscure what God really is.

I really believe that God and religion is two different things.

God needs to get rescued from religious music.

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.

You can't have a church run by people who don't believe in God.

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.

When you live with the Devil you learn there's a God very quickly.

I'm a very good dishwasher. I'm a terrible cook. I'm an awful cook.

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.

When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.

The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.

People always complain, 'you never invited me to your wedding', but I prefer casual weddings.

God is something that needs rescuing from religion.

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.