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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. "
Dolores O'Riordan
Bond
Journey
Just
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" 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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" 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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" When you're pregnant or living with an infant, there's a kind of sacredness around your body that affects everything you do. "
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" 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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People
Old
" 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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Me
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" 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
" When the band were really big and we had massive hits, I was always stressed-out and insecure. I thought I wanted the band to be really popular, but when that happened, there was so much pressure to keep it going. "
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Pressure
Thought
Always
" I was 19 when I wrote 'Dreams,' and that would have been when it started to happen. The band got signed, and I was probably beginning to see different things besides my small town of Ballybricken. "
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Got
Beginning
Band
" Room service is nice. Ooh-la-la, a hotel. At home, it's laundry and school lunches. "
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School
Room
" We all wonder about death, where people go and what happens. But certainly, they cross over from this dimension to another one. "
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Happens
People
" It was different to what everyone else was doing. It was very hard to pigeonhole The Cranberries. And we were just huge; it was just sensational. "
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Just
Everyone
Hard
" When I was about 14, I got a tacky keyboard for 250 pounds and put on a drum machine and found I could write a song. "
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Write
Drum
Found
" I write about what is getting to me at the time, about the things you need to talk about, but which would sound silly if you sat down and told them to your friend. I only write for myself, to get my emotions out. It's self-therapeutic. "
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Myself
Me
Friend
" 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
" You can't be in a situation where you are not happy. It's as simple as that. "
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Situation
You
Where
" 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. "
Dolores O'Riordan
School
Song
Listen
" 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 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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Women
You
Hate
" 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
" It's a great gig, really: getting on stage, playing the guitar, singing. For a living, it's super. "
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Stage
Living
Great
" I lived in a small village outside the city and grew up in a large family, so my world was very much centred around that. I used to sing in the local church, and I would also occasionally sing in the local pubs for which I used to get a few bob. That, for me, was the start of my interest in music, which has obviously expanded since then. "
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Me
Family
Music
" 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
" 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. "
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Famous
Looking
Hotel
" 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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Because
Point
Self
" 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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Like
Feel
Too Much
" 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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Escape
Done
Artist
" 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
" 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 kids mean more to me than anything I thought was important when I was younger. "
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Thought
More
" I try to think about optimism. I try to look at the beautiful things in life. "
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Look
Think