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" I thought the best thing to do to bring me back to reality would be to have a child, and by the time I had my first, Taylor, when I was 25, we'd sold 35 million records as a band, and I'd had enough; I knew my sanity was more important than success. "

Dolores O'Riordan

Thought

Child

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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. "

Dolores O'Riordan

Money

Fame

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Dolores O'Riordan

Looking Back

Good

" 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. "

" You get older and come to the conclusion that it's a great gig making music. Even if you turn into an old gnarly fart, no one cares what you look like if you write good songs - the only gig is to sing well and perform. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I lived in buses. I didn't really have anything else. I didn't feel like a female, and I ended up really kind of isolated. Everybody thinks you're so happy and so wealthy and such a big star, but you're really kind of lonely and don't know how to stop it. "

" When you're on tour too much or on stage too much, you feel like you have to deliver and get this super-hyped vibe going. "

Dolores O'Riordan

Feel

Too Much

" Luckily I don't have a sinful past, because there's nothing you can hide from your kids now. "

" 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. "

" I love performing, and I love the idea of people buying records. I don't particularly like the idea of people knowing me or thinking they do, but that's a part of what I choose. I choose not to go to college; I choose to be a singer. "

" 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. "

" My kids mean more to me than anything I thought was important when I was younger. "

Dolores O'Riordan

Kids

Thought

" 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

Looking

Always

" When you're pregnant or living with an infant, there's a kind of sacredness around your body that affects everything you do. "

" I got to a point where I referred to myself as Dolores of the Cranberries instead of myself because I alienated my real self from what I became so much. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You can't be in a situation where you are not happy. It's as simple as that. "

" When The Cranberries got really big in Ireland, it became difficult for me to be there with all the photographers and paparazzi. "

Dolores O'Riordan

Difficult

Got

" People often ask me why I sing with a strong Irish accent. I suppose when I was five years old, I spoke with a strong Irish accent, so I sang with one, too. "

" In Canada, anything that's not in the city is referred to as a cottage. Or a log cabin. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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