Sinead O'Connor Quotes

When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.

It sounds cheesy, but music has saved me in a lot of ways. If I had just continued acting, I don't think I would be alive.

If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.

I was going to be a doctor, but I think my music allowed me to help more people than I could have done one-on-one as a psychologist. Just like other people's music really helped me.

I've always liked depressing music because a lot of times, listening to it when you're down can actually make you feel less depressed. Also, even though a person may have problems with depression, sometimes you can actually be kind of comfortable in that space because you know how to operate within it.

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for.

When stuff gets hard, and you're feeling real down about everything or in a cark space, a song can bring you out of it.

I think love could have saved Kurt Cobain.

I suffer from depression. Severe cases of it. Not one case of depression, not a severe case, but severe cases of depression. Music is my only outlet, it's therapeutic to me. It's a release. It's how I vent emotionally.

Music became a healer for me.

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

When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.

As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.

My bulimia was my addiction. Hurting myself was my addiction... The music is what saved me. That's the only thing I can trust.

I listen to music when I'm feeling down or just a certain way. I don't know what I'd do without it!

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.

I'm depressed when I don't get to do music. Having to go back to doing something I don't like and am not passionate about would be a tough thing.

I sort of look at music as helping me get through situations.

I don't know how I dealt with it. I went to a shrink.

I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

I still believe that music is healing to some extent.

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

Music is the medicine of the mind.

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