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" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" One day we were in Limerick... and then, a few weeks later, we were being flown around to play. When we started, it was just a hobby. It wasn't any big ambition. "

" 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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" 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. "

" We all wonder about death, where people go and what happens. But certainly, they cross over from this dimension to another one. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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

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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. "

" 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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" You never find peace in this realm, but it's okay, because when my dad went to the other side, he looks after me now better than he did in life. He is with me all the time. "

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

Dolores O'Riordan

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" I try to think about optimism. I try to look at the beautiful things in life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's amazing to see anyone come out, let alone tell you they have been waiting so long. They are loyal people, our fans. "

" For me, you can't be a big fat pig up there, slovenly and singing croaky and whatnot. You have to work. "

" 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. "

" The writing became a hobby in the background: it took a back seat to parenthood and being a person and being a human being. "

" A lot of these songs just came from day-to-day experiences. And it was a very natural, kind of organic process. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" I remember when MTV first put 'Linger' in heavy rotation, every time I walked into a diner or a hotel lobby, it was like, 'Jesus, man, here I am again.' "