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" I keep my children safe and protected from all my baggage. They get to have a normal childhood, and they're not affected by my life. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Life
My Life
Children
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" I enjoyed living in Canada, where my husband comes from, because I was treated like any ordinary person. I became a volunteer at my children's school; I went into the classroom. It was very grounding. I got sick of being famous. "
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" People don't look at you singing. They go within themselves and listen. Music is about listening, not looking. That's why I wore these huge baggy dresses on stage with The Cranberries. "
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" 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. "
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" It's amazing to see anyone come out, let alone tell you they have been waiting so long. They are loyal people, our fans. "
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" 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. "
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Grow
Paris
" I hated singing, I hated being on stage; I hated being in the Cranberries. I was constantly crying. I was going insane. I wanted to be a shopkeeper, a hairdresser, anything. I was so desperate to have a reality, friends, a regular, boring life. I missed that. "
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" A lot of these songs just came from day-to-day experiences. And it was a very natural, kind of organic process. "
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Process
Experiences
" 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. "
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Break
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" I don't appreciate people invading my privacy. "
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Appreciate
Invading
" 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. "
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Writing
" I am just trying to live for my kids. It is all about my kids now. I love them endlessly. "
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Just
Love
" 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. "
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Daughter
Family
Time
" Everyone at school knew I wanted to be a singer. I'd always be banging on the piano playing my new song. The teacher would gather us round, and the whole class would listen. "
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School
Song
Listen
" 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. "
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Just
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Hard
" 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. "
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Rock
You
Problems
" 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 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. "
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People
" Luckily I don't have a sinful past, because there's nothing you can hide from your kids now. "
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" Growing up, there was a lot of pressure for women to be good-looking, but my mum was very strict, and she didn't allow me to wear make-up. Looking back, it was good for me. It slowed me down from becoming an adult too quickly. "
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" Room service is nice. Ooh-la-la, a hotel. At home, it's laundry and school lunches. "
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Service
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" You know that band that are all over 'Melody Maker,' Huggy Bear, they're just a load of crap, right? Riot grrrl group - y'know, it's all sexism and stuff, women standing up for their rights: 'This girl said this at the gig off the stage.' It's nothing got to do with music. They're probably untalented gits when it comes to the crunch. "
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Women
Girl
Group
" 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. "
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Doing
Enjoy
Fun
" I write about what is getting to me at the time, about the things you need to talk about, but which would sound silly if you sat down and told them to your friend. I only write for myself, to get my emotions out. It's self-therapeutic. "
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Myself
Me
Friend
" I was so young when I got so famous, and then I kind of put up a wall around myself. I didn't really want to show people any fragilities or fears; I was trying to be this tough person that I felt was expected of me. "
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Famous
Kind
" I worked myself into a frenzy. By 1996, I had a nervous breakdown just from working. I couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, just getting anxiety attacks and all of that stuff because I was doing too much, too young, all the time. "
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Sleep
Time
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" There's always a party in my bus. "
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Always
" I guess all bands get to that point where they run out of inspiration and just get bored with the chemistry. "
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" '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. "
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Never
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Time
" We have a certain bond that we don't have with anyone else on the planet. You just have that bond, that journey when you are in a band together. "
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" It was tough. We went right from being teenagers to musical superstars with money and fame and attention. All of us had a hard time adjusting to it, especially me. "
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