Sinéad O'Connor

(on her track "Success(Has Made a Failure of our Home") Sinéad: If Ireland had not been invaded by the English, which was done for money, the Irish people wouldn't be in the amount of trouble that they are in at the moment and I wouldn't have been abused as a child... and neither would anybody else. So what I am saying is that through my own personal experience, I've learned that success has made a failure of our home.

(on coming out in 1999) Sinéad: I'm a lesbian ... although I haven't been very open about that and throughout most of my life I've gone out with blokes because I haven't necessarily been terribly comfortable about being a lesbian. But I actually am a lesbian.

(on comparing her later and earlier albums) Sinéad: When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.