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" 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

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" 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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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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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" I just block out the demons. I sing. I block them away. I put my pain into my music. I paint. I make my own videos. I direct myself. No one directs me anymore. I am in charge of my destiny. "

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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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" 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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" 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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