Dolores O'Riordan Quotes

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.

To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.

In the midst of hardship, it was the music that restored my soul.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

As I feel this life growing and moving inside of me, all of a sudden everything else is not as important. There's a level of perspective that is changing.

I can remember the night I became a Christian. And man, this weight came off of me and all that kind of stuff. What I didn't realize was, that was just the beginning - of a huge journey.

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

It's amazing, the mentality shift that occurs in pregnancy. All of a sudden you want to be good to yourself.

I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.

God's not complicated - He's really not. And He helps people in their everyday life so that they can get better in relationships, in their job situations, in getting through grief.

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

All the muddy waters of my life cleared up when I gave myself to Christ.

Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the focus of my life and made me reevaluate my personal and professional goals.

I repented at 28 and turned to Jesus.

I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.

When you're pregnant, things - at least for me - get very sincere and very wholesome, and it's about family, and singing becomes about warmth.

I started crying the other day just thinking that the baby is going to leave me soon! You have this relationship with this person in your belly and it's really amazing.

I was headed in the wrong direction. I didn't think I'd make it to 21. My Uncle Chuck saved my life. He was a graphic designer, and he gave me my first sketchbook. In the front, he wrote, 'Wear it like your underwear.'

My heart has been resuscitated as a result of becoming a mom.

I remember walking down the aisle, and I got down on my knees as a person who is so selfish, but when I rose back up the Lord had become the Master of my life.

After my daughter was born, I made a promise to myself to live in the moment.

There is no better news, than the fact that Jesus can actually turn a life upside down and save it.