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" Luckily I don't have a sinful past, because there's nothing you can hide from your kids now. "
Dolores O'Riordan
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" 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. "
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Move On
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Face
" 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. "
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" People look at you and see a product. They don't see a soul. They see an empty hole. "
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Product
People
Look
" 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. "
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Balance
Strong
Mom
" My mom always had a softer spot for boys, as a lot of Irish women do. If you were a girl, you'd have to sing or wear a pretty dress. But boys could just sit there and be brilliant for sitting there and being boys. It makes you that little bit more forward. Pushy. I was singing, always. "
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Girl
Women
Singing
" 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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Europe
Break
Difficult
" 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. "
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Journey
Life
Myself
" I've come to the conclusion that life is for the taking and just too short to dwell on the negative. "
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Negative
Short
Life
" I always come across like I'm looking serious, but I just don't like smiling. Honestly, obviously I'm different in person. "
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Looking
Like
Always
" When The Cranberries got really big in Ireland, it became difficult for me to be there with all the photographers and paparazzi. "
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Me
Difficult
Got
" Why can't we actually sing and get respected as good singers and songwriters without having our boobs and butt hanging out? "
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Butt
Good
Hanging
" 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. "
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Small
Amazing
Problems
" The writing became a hobby in the background: it took a back seat to parenthood and being a person and being a human being. "
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Human
Person
Writing
" We were never a frivolous band; we prided ourselves on having something to say, and I think that's what gives your songs longevity. "
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Your
Band
Longevity
" 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. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Body
Father
Him
" I'm an icon. I'm the Queen of Limerick. "
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Icon
Queen
" 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
Like
Feel
Too Much
" 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. "
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Band
You
Better
" U2 and Sinead O'Connor - I haven't a clue why we're compared to them. Apart from us all being Irish, we've nothing in common. "
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Common
Being
Irish
" There's always a party in my bus. "
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Bus
Party
Always
" 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
" 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. "
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Strong
People
Old
" 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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Long
People
Waiting
" 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. "
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Life
My Life
Children
" You want to be in control of a lot. You grow up. You sink or swim. I suppose I swam. "
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Swim
Grow
You
" 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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Reality
Life
Friends
" Room service is nice. Ooh-la-la, a hotel. At home, it's laundry and school lunches. "
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Service
School
Room
" 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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Run
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" 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. "
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People
Time
Music
" 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. "
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Choir
Go
Church