Sinead O'Connor Quotes

I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

I made some choices that weren't right in the past. It cost me in terms of my confidence and everything.

I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of.

I don't talk about my past; people ask me about it. I've done things I'm ashamed of, but one thing I can honestly say is that things I've done that I regret, I've never done twice. I work really hard at that.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

It saddens me to know that I jeopardized the welfare of the kind people of Hawaii, a community that I love and call my home.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn't done in life. They wish they hadn't kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.

I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.

I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.

I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

I've done some pretty bad things in my life.

I know that people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but what I did was immoral, illegal, unethical, and something that I am not proud of - nor will I ever be proud of.

I'm so different from the egotistical, self-centred person I was when I did those things. And to watch someone acting out your memories on the screen is like reliving it. Like someone taking you back and showing you what you did.

While I'd like to believe that I'm not a bad or evil person, regardless, it's clear that some of my past actions have hurt or offended several women. And I probably deserve to be called a creep.

There are definitely plays that I wish that I could have back.

I'm constantly meeting people that I hurt, you know? This is not - when I go and talk about these things, this is not a theoretical - it's not a theoretical apology. It's something that I live every day.

I act the way I act and I'm not proud of it.

I can only say sorry for the past. I can't change it.

We've all said and done things we... wish we'd done differently.

If I could go back and change how I left the NRL, I would. My name will forever be tarnished but I wasn't the man I am now.

There are many things about my life that I wish had been different and that I still find difficult to live down.

This record was kind of, like, innocent. It's called 'The Innocents.' So it's the concept of being young enough to not really understand the implications of your decisions and then kind of feeling the weight later and being, like, but I was innocent. Like, did I deserve this?

Do I have some regrets? Of course.

The one feeling that settled in and stayed there for a long while, and I still deal with, is guilt. I was there. I was a part of it. Why does it have to be like this? Was I responsible? Was I the reason Dale was in that position? I'd ask myself that question and look around at people and wonder if they were thinking that, too.