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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. "

Dolores O'Riordan

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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 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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" You get older and come to the conclusion that it's a great gig making music. Even if you turn into an old gnarly fart, no one cares what you look like if you write good songs - the only gig is to sing well and perform. "

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" I keep my children safe and protected from all my baggage. They get to have a normal childhood, and they're not affected by my life. "

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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 didn't get a lot of attention from my dad when I was young. That's a big part of it for girls. Because your dad is the first love of your life. If he doesn't put you on his lap and give you a pet, you do end up not really liking yourself that much. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" There's no point in getting too worried about things, because life is too short. "

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Life Is Too Short

" The first album didn't become successful until the second was practically written. "

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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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" There's always a party in my bus. "

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

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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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" 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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" Once you succeed at what you're doing, your parents see that what you were doing wasn't so bad after all, though they'd prefer to see you in a secure lifestyle where you have a contract for years and years, or you have a diploma or degree. "

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" 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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" 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. "

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

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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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" My kids mean more to me than anything I thought was important when I was younger. "

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" When the Greatest Hits came out and we did that tour, I just felt I wanted to take a break, totally. Probably because, as well, I was so young when I got famous. I did album, tour, album, tour, album, tour, then I had a public nervous breakdown where I just lost tons of weight. "

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