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" 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. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Common
Being
Irish
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" You can't be in a situation where you are not happy. It's as simple as that. "
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" 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. "
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Know
" 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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" 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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" 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
" 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'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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Artist
Work
Doing
" 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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City
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Paris
" 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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Money
Me
Fame
" 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
Good
Face
" I was at that point where my children needed more than going around the planet in the back of a bus. They needed stability, they needed to build their own lives and relationships, and I needed to put my life on hold. I made my choice - I chose my children. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Back
My Life
Children
" 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. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Doing
Enjoy
Fun
" 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. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Rock
You
Problems
" There's always a party in my bus. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Bus
Party
Always
" We were never a frivolous band; we prided ourselves on having something to say, and I think that's what gives your songs longevity. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Your
Band
Longevity
" 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
" 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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Life
Love
My Life
" 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
" 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. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Love
Thinking
People
" The first album didn't become successful until the second was practically written. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Become
First
Second
" There's no point in getting too worried about things, because life is too short. "
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Life Is Too Short
Life
Point
" 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. "
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Big
Play
Hobby
" 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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Way
Sometimes
Need
" 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. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Girl
Women
Singing
" 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
" 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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Lived
Living
Know
" The feeling that's in your heart all the time comes out spiritually in your voice and the music. "
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Music
Feeling
Heart
" 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
" We all got older, and we'd tell our children things like, 'Mommy used to be in a famous rock band,' but they didn't believe us. Part of the reason for our reunion was to show our children what we did to make the lives they have possible. "
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Believe
Children
Famous
" 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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