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" People look at you and see a product. They don't see a soul. They see an empty hole. "
Dolores O'Riordan
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" 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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" 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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" Sometimes your kids give you that shove out the door to do things that you need. Teenagers are good that way; they keep you in the loop. "
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" 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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" My husband Don's mother, Denise, was diagnosed with cancer, and she was given eight months to live. We decided to go and stay there and help live her days with her, 'cause you don't get those chances again, right? "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" In Canada, anything that's not in the city is referred to as a cottage. Or a log cabin. "
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City
Cottage
" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Problems
" For an artist or an entertainer, it's the ultimate when you can go to the forest when you're done your work and escape. "
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Done
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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. "
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Child
" 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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" The things a young woman goes through between the ages of 18 and 20 are far different than what a young woman can go through between 20 and 22. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I didn't really know many girls, growing up, because there weren't many other people living around where I lived. "
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" 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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" I love to go home to my kids. I don't have that lull in my life when I didn't have them. "
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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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" 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. "
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" When I got pregnant, I started singing again. It was my saving grace. I literally mean having this amazing human life, and our relationship in the sense of mother and child, redeemed my soul. "
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" 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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" Room service is nice. Ooh-la-la, a hotel. At home, it's laundry and school lunches. "
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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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