Dolores O'Riordan Quotes
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When you're pregnant or living with an infant, there's a kind of sacredness around your body that affects everything you do.
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It's pretty weird when you are just touring all the time and you don't have a normal life. You're out of touch with reality too much.
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I hated singing, I hated being on stage; I hated being in the Cranberries. I was constantly crying. I was going insane. I wanted to be a shopkeeper, a hairdresser, anything. I was so desperate to have a reality, friends, a regular, boring life. I missed that.
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I always come across like I'm looking serious, but I just don't like smiling. Honestly, obviously I'm different in person.
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In 1997, we took time off, and that's when Oasis broke and Princess Diana died and I was home with my baby hating the music industry. People asked what I thought about the Spice Girls, and honestly, I was so happy to tell them I couldn't be bothered to care.
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This is just an ordinary day Wipe the insecurities away I can see that the darkness will erode Looking out the corner of my eye I can see that the sunshine will explode Far across the desert in the sky Beautiful girl Won't you be my inspiration? Beautiful girl Don't you throw your love around What in the world, what in the world Could ever come between us?
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You get older and come to the conclusion that it's a great gig making music. Even if you turn into an old gnarly fart, no one cares what you look like if you write good songs - the only gig is to sing well and perform.
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In Canada, anything that's not in the city is referred to as a cottage. Or a log cabin.
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My priorities were taking the kids to school and being a mum and being a daughter and being a sister. Just spending a lot of that time with my family that I'd probably lost a lot of, touring with the Cranberries.
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My father, I spent a lot of time with him at the hospital. I was with him when he took his last breath, but I felt something coming from him into my hand and into my body.
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It's very difficult to break in Europe unless you break in England, and it's very difficult to break in England if you're Irish.
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My mom always had a softer spot for boys, as a lot of Irish women do. If you were a girl, you'd have to sing or wear a pretty dress. But boys could just sit there and be brilliant for sitting there and being boys. It makes you that little bit more forward. Pushy. I was singing, always.
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I enjoyed living in Canada, where my husband comes from, because I was treated like any ordinary person. I became a volunteer at my children's school; I went into the classroom. It was very grounding. I got sick of being famous.
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Growing up, there was a lot of pressure for women to be good-looking, but my mum was very strict, and she didn't allow me to wear make-up. Looking back, it was good for me. It slowed me down from becoming an adult too quickly.
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People look at you and see a product. They don't see a soul. They see an empty hole.
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Oh my life is changing everyday In every possible way And oh my dreams It's never quite as it seems Never quite as it seems.
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Not everybody wanted a female to be the front face of a big band, you know... You had to be three times better than a man had to be.
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There's no point in getting too worried about things, because life is too short.
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It's important to take time off because it's a long journey this life, and I want to be singing in 30 years' time. You see a lot of artists who get caught up in the here and now, and they just burn themselves out, and I kind of did that myself with my third album.
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I'm an icon. I'm the Queen of Limerick.
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What's amazing is - I actually have problems getting it into my head - Canada is so big, right? And Ireland's small, you know; you drive from coast to coast in three hours.
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I'm knowing this could be our last event Jaweh, Jaweh, Jaweh I'm knowing I am your youngest descent I don't want to know your pain I don't want to play the game.
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Why can't we actually sing and get respected as good singers and songwriters without having our boobs and butt hanging out?
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I love to go home to my kids. I don't have that lull in my life when I didn't have them.