O'Connor: "I don't want any man to have control over me."

O'Connor: "I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker."

O'Connor: "I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life."

O'Connor: "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."

O'Connor: "When you live with the Devil you learn there's a God very quickly."

O'Connor: "I have no shame around the fact that I can be shot into suicidal feelings by certain people's treatment of me. I am no different to any other person, I therefore act as I believe any other person should be free to."

O'Connor: "To say what you feel is to dig your own grave."

O'Connor: "My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work."

O'Connor: "Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse."

O'Connor: "I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It's a very special thing."

O'Connor: "When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion."

O'Connor: "If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly."

O'Connor: "I don't feel like me unless I have my hair shaved. So even when I'm an old lady, I'm going to have it."