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I'm an icon. I'm the Queen of Limerick.
I grew up with a very strong Irish accent.
I live as I choose or I will not live at all.
I don't appreciate people invading my privacy.
The evidence I see tells me the unborn is a human being.
I try to think about optimism. I try to look at the beautiful things in life.
There's no point in getting too worried about things, because life is too short.
The first album didn't become successful until the second was practically written.
Room service is nice. Ooh-la-la, a hotel. At home, it's laundry and school lunches.
You want to be in control of a lot. You grow up. You sink or swim. I suppose I swam.
People look at you and see a product. They don't see a soul. They see an empty hole.
In Canada, anything that's not in the city is referred to as a cottage. Or a log cabin.
I love to go home to my kids. I don't have that lull in my life when I didn't have them.
I am just trying to live for my kids. It is all about my kids now. I love them endlessly.
Luckily I don't have a sinful past, because there's nothing you can hide from your kids now.
The feeling that's in your heart all the time comes out spiritually in your voice and the music.
It's a great gig, really: getting on stage, playing the guitar, singing. For a living, it's super.
I've come to the conclusion that life is for the taking and just too short to dwell on the negative.
For me, you can't be a big fat pig up there, slovenly and singing croaky and whatnot. You have to work.
I guess all bands get to that point where they run out of inspiration and just get bored with the chemistry.
A lot of these songs just came from day-to-day experiences. And it was a very natural, kind of organic process.
I was raised Catholic and I have a lot of respect for the good in the Catholic Church. But I don't go to church.
The school I went to was so Gaelic that you learned how to play the tin whistle and how to Irish-dance in class.
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.
To me, life is a bit of everything. I have the band, I have my kids. Life is a big picture. It's not just your career.
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.
It's amazing to see anyone come out, let alone tell you they have been waiting so long. They are loyal people, our fans.
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.
I always come across like I'm looking serious, but I just don't like smiling. Honestly, obviously I'm different in person.
The writing became a hobby in the background: it took a back seat to parenthood and being a person and being a human being.
Why can't we actually sing and get respected as good singers and songwriters without having our boobs and butt hanging out?
When you're pregnant or living with an infant, there's a kind of sacredness around your body that affects everything you do.
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.
We all wonder about death, where people go and what happens. But certainly, they cross over from this dimension to another one.
When The Cranberries got really big in Ireland, it became difficult for me to be there with all the photographers and paparazzi.
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.
I went to Irish dance when I was four. I was playing the tin whistle when I was five. So I think certain things are bred into you.
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.
We were never a frivolous band; we prided ourselves on having something to say, and I think that's what gives your songs longevity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I remember when MTV first put 'Linger' in heavy rotation, every time I walked into a diner or a hotel lobby, it was like, 'Jesus, man, here I am again.'