Sinead O'Connor Quotes

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

Music for me is not just being on a stage and singing. It's my coping mechanism.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

I've always been one of those people that, if I am angry, I just hold it in. And I always kind of, like, wrote it in a song and put it aside for myself because it helps me get it out. It's almost like exercising; it's almost like that for me.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music.

There have been periods in my life where I have experienced depression. It has been through some of my darkest moments that I have written some of my best songs. For me, singing and writing is very therapeutic. It's much more effective than taking Prozac!

I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.

As the weeks went on, I realized there was an important role comedy would play in healing the tragedies of September 11. Comedy can help people cope, and many people were coming to the clubs to laugh out the stress.

I get things out of my system through my songs, but, because they can be about so many different things, it takes me a while to get through them emotionally.

I've been in therapy since I was five, but music goes way, way, way, way, way beyond therapy.

I used music as therapy and embraced being a cry baby.

We all need ways of processing things. I think I was called to music because it was this thing that was always there for me that I could pour my heart into safely.

I think psychology still has a sway over everything we do, but music, in and of itself, is the therapy.

Creating something beautiful out of pain helps ease the pain. So, that's kind of how I got to songwriting - quite honestly out of desperation.

Looking back on it, now I can identify the points in my life when I wasn't playing, and music - and didn't have that outlet - those were the points when I was most unguided and self destructive because I didn't have that channel to get those energies out. I'm a much healthier person when I play music.

When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

When people are feeling a bunch of feelings or there's something happening within the world, a lot of people get healing through music, or a lot of people's go-to entertainment to find some answers or understand something.

I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.