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" 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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" Why can't we actually sing and get respected as good singers and songwriters without having our boobs and butt hanging out? "

Dolores O'Riordan

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" I'm an artist, and I need to work, like everybody. We need to be challenged and that we're getting up and doing something with our lives. "

" It's very difficult to break in Europe unless you break in England, and it's very difficult to break in England if you're Irish. "

" I didn't know initially whether I'd like doing TV and whether I'd be able to work with other people. I've always done my own thing. I've never put myself into that situation, but it's the most fun I've had in years. "

" 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. "

" I missed a lot of family weddings and funerals because we were out on the road and had these big gigs, and you can't pull out of these gigs at the last minute because too many people are counting on it. It got to the point where I was consumed with that. "

" '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. "

" I look like that in the morning: my hair's all greasy - it's not, 'Hey, look at the babe of the band!' I hate that kind of thing, the way women are always pushed forward as beauties... it's very easy: you can make the ugliest pig look lovely in a photograph. "

" 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. "

" I was so famous that I couldn't leave the hotel room. I remember looking out of the window at all these fans but just feeling so isolated. "

" Each gig is brilliant and fun. When it becomes a routine, we'll take a break. There's no point in doing it if you don't enjoy it. "

" We all got older, and we'd tell our children things like, 'Mommy used to be in a famous rock band,' but they didn't believe us. Part of the reason for our reunion was to show our children what we did to make the lives they have possible. "

" The feeling that's in your heart all the time comes out spiritually in your voice and the music. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I didn't really know many girls, growing up, because there weren't many other people living around where I lived. "

" When the Greatest Hits came out and we did that tour, I just felt I wanted to take a break, totally. Probably because, as well, I was so young when I got famous. I did album, tour, album, tour, album, tour, then I had a public nervous breakdown where I just lost tons of weight. "

" It's important to take time off because it's a long journey this life, and I want to be singing in 30 years' time. You see a lot of artists who get caught up in the here and now, and they just burn themselves out, and I kind of did that myself with my third album. "

" It was different to what everyone else was doing. It was very hard to pigeonhole The Cranberries. And we were just huge; it was just sensational. "

" My father, I spent a lot of time with him at the hospital. I was with him when he took his last breath, but I felt something coming from him into my hand and into my body. "

" When everybody's looking at you, it does your head in. When you're always on the inside, sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees. "

" When the band were really big and we had massive hits, I was always stressed-out and insecure. I thought I wanted the band to be really popular, but when that happened, there was so much pressure to keep it going. "

" 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. "

" I was at that point where my children needed more than going around the planet in the back of a bus. They needed stability, they needed to build their own lives and relationships, and I needed to put my life on hold. I made my choice - I chose my children. "

" 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. "

" As you get older, it's good to open up and acknowledge that everybody has their scary moments, their negative moments. And in order to move on and find comfort and hope, you have to stop running from the darkness and face it. And when you face it, it's not that scary at all, and sometimes it actually turns around and runs away. "

" For a while there, our writing got really edgy... I've always written about experiences, so when your life gets a bit crazy, you start to write songs that are a bit edgy. "

" I'm an icon. I'm the Queen of Limerick. "

Dolores O'Riordan

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" There's no point in getting too worried about things, because life is too short. "

" You want to be in control of a lot. You grow up. You sink or swim. I suppose I swam. "