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“Top of the Pops. I love “54-46 Was My Number.” I love the reggae song “Israelites” too, and “Uptown Top Ranking.” I never heard any reggae except those three songs and I love them. I wish I knew what strictly roots from “Uptown Top Ranking” means. I heard the Impressions too; they have a song called “Fool for You,” about a man who loves a woman who is mean to him.”
― Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings

“they did an instrumental piece, played on a sort of high Irish whistle, that they said Finbar Furey, the lead singer, wrote when he was twelve. It was called “The Lonesome Boatman.” The most beautiful and haunting melody I’ve ever heard. Such grief to have come from a child. It was like he knew my own heart. And no one in this place had ever known my heart.”
― Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings

“I am an older woman now with a different voice. So this is only my first memoir. My intention is to live a long life and keep diaries this time so I won’t forget. However, it was necessary for me to let the child inside me speak because she needed to speak. And because I did, she is older now and chooses to remain about seventeen.”
― Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings

“Secretly loving the food but also feeling that painful humiliation from childhood that comes when I register hunger. It’s too connected with my mother; I can’t accept it. Food turns to pebbles in my mouth, like Lot’s wife looking back. I resist it, as if to prove I’m totally in God’s hands.”
― Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings