Dervla Kirwan Quotes

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

As for my role models... you know, I'm an immigrant, so we didn't grow up with too much TV. My parents were like, 'You must read your books.'

I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background.

I'm just a product of my environment, and it comes out in the music.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

I mean, I didn't have a huge upbringing with movies, I guess.

I was a product of the relationships with my family, the environment I grew up in; all those things I kind of put on the back burner when I got into music, and my life all changed dramatically.

I grew up one of three girls, and none of them were into comic books, so I wasn't exposed to that world.

When I grew up, my house contained only two books: the Bible and the 'Edmonds' cookbook. We were a working-class household. Books were a poor second to the television, which was always on, usually with me in front of it.

In my family, education was something you endured. My parents weren't educated past high school, and the only book in our house was a 'Reader's Digest' condensed book. Can you imagine?

Everyone is a product of their own environment, and that, I think, has actually been the key lesson for me.

Between the two [parents], it was a really unique upbringing, I think, especially for where I was from.

I was raised in a very Middle Eastern household, and modesty was very important, and dressing to not be desirable or provocative was very important.

I didn't grow up with my dad, or around the whole legacy. I was post-Motown, so I'd always hear stories and wonder what was it like.

My parents are kind of young, and my dad always listened to rock music and stuff like that, so I sort of grew up around that. As far as acting goes, I didn't really have any major influences because it wasn't really something that I focused on.

People often ask me when I realised that I was different. Some people seem surprised that it's a question that I cannot answer. I was never told that I was different. I was always just Sinead; I was just like my dad.

Growing up in bars might sound like child abuse. And if it does, then you're what my mom would call 'Protestants.'

I lived with my mom my whole life; her work ethic was ridiculous, and it hasn't changed.

I come from a big Irish family who force-fed me as a kid, so not eating was never an option.

People don't exist in a vacuum. They're a result of who raised them and who they love and who frustrates them.

We all have baggage from our upbringing! That's life!

My dad does a good job of reminding me where I came from.

I been doing a lot of reading, watching a lot of basketball, watching a lot of shows.

My mom and dad met at U. Conn., and their lives couldn't have been more different in terms of their upbringing.

Coming from a middle-class background of Northern Karnataka, where good education was the only insurance policy, I started reading and writing very early.