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" I always come across like I'm looking serious, but I just don't like smiling. Honestly, obviously I'm different in person. "
Dolores O'Riordan
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Like
Always
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" I was 19 when I wrote 'Dreams,' and that would have been when it started to happen. The band got signed, and I was probably beginning to see different things besides my small town of Ballybricken. "
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Got
Beginning
Band
" I guess the way to keep a grip on reality is just to take breaks in between albums like most normal bands do. Go home and be a person and hang out with your friends. Do separate things and get back to earth and write songs and go out there again. "
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Back
Reality
Home
" I just block out the demons. I sing. I block them away. I put my pain into my music. I paint. I make my own videos. I direct myself. No one directs me anymore. I am in charge of my destiny. "
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Myself
Destiny
I Am
" Not everybody wanted a female to be the front face of a big band, you know... You had to be three times better than a man had to be. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Band
You
Better
" In Canada, anything that's not in the city is referred to as a cottage. Or a log cabin. "
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Cabin
City
Cottage
" I think there's a difference between somebody who grows up in Paris or London and goes to Los Angeles. But if you grow up in the green fields, and you rarely go into the city, you're so overprotected that when you do go to L.A., it's almost a bigger slap in the head. "
Dolores O'Riordan
City
Grow
Paris
" My parents were in the local church choir, and I used to go along and sing and play the organ at all the weddings and christenings. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Choir
Go
Church
" I was a full-time mom for seven years. You go back on tour, you're back in hotels, you're ordering room service, and you're getting an itinerary slipped under your door every,day. You're kind of thinking, 'Did I go home for seven years, or was that just a dream?' "
Dolores O'Riordan
Door
You
Thinking
" I guess all bands get to that point where they run out of inspiration and just get bored with the chemistry. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Run
Just
Inspiration
" We all wonder about death, where people go and what happens. But certainly, they cross over from this dimension to another one. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Death
Happens
People
" My priorities were taking the kids to school and being a mum and being a daughter and being a sister. Just spending a lot of that time with my family that I'd probably lost a lot of, touring with the Cranberries. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Daughter
Family
Time
" Once you succeed at what you're doing, your parents see that what you were doing wasn't so bad after all, though they'd prefer to see you in a secure lifestyle where you have a contract for years and years, or you have a diploma or degree. "
Dolores O'Riordan
You
Bad
Doing
" I went very close to the edge, but it's nice to have been strong enough to get through it. I'm lucky I had family, a good husband, and my mom. People like that help balance you. When you're feeling down and bad, it's the people that love you who kind of sort your head out for you. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Balance
Strong
Mom
" 'Linger' was the first song I wrote after joining the Cranberries. I was 18, and the youngest member of the band was 16 at the time. We never imagined it'd be such a big hit. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Never
Song
Time
" It was great about the sizes of the audiences we were getting in America, but sometimes you feel like telling some of the men that you're not on stage to have your body looked at. "
Dolores O'Riordan
You
Men
America
" In 1997, we took time off, and that's when Oasis broke and Princess Diana died and I was home with my baby hating the music industry. People asked what I thought about the Spice Girls, and honestly, I was so happy to tell them I couldn't be bothered to care. "
Dolores O'Riordan
People
Time
Music
" I don't appreciate people invading my privacy. "
Dolores O'Riordan
People
Appreciate
Invading
" It's pretty weird when you are just touring all the time and you don't have a normal life. You're out of touch with reality too much. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Reality
Life
You
" You can't be in a situation where you are not happy. It's as simple as that. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Situation
You
Where
" I love to go home to my kids. I don't have that lull in my life when I didn't have them. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Life
Love
My Life
" Only we were in The Cranberries. Only we know what it was like being in that crazy whirlwind of fame. We have children and spouses and lives, but there is only one Cranberries. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Children
Only
Like
" When my grandfather died, I was on tour, and I didn't go to the funeral. I never got to say goodbye, and this is one of the problems of being in a rock band is that you're away, and your loved ones die, and you can't even see them. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Rock
You
Problems
" I didn't get a lot of attention from my dad when I was young. That's a big part of it for girls. Because your dad is the first love of your life. If he doesn't put you on his lap and give you a pet, you do end up not really liking yourself that much. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Love
Pet
You
" It's a great gig, really: getting on stage, playing the guitar, singing. For a living, it's super. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Stage
Living
Great
" I went to Irish dance when I was four. I was playing the tin whistle when I was five. So I think certain things are bred into you. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Irish
Playing
Think
" To me, life is a bit of everything. I have the band, I have my kids. Life is a big picture. It's not just your career. "
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Life Is A
Picture
Career
" What's amazing is - I actually have problems getting it into my head - Canada is so big, right? And Ireland's small, you know; you drive from coast to coast in three hours. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Small
Amazing
Problems
" I didn't really know many girls, growing up, because there weren't many other people living around where I lived. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Lived
Living
Know
" Room service is nice. Ooh-la-la, a hotel. At home, it's laundry and school lunches. "
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Service
School
Room
" The feeling that's in your heart all the time comes out spiritually in your voice and the music. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Music
Feeling
Heart