Dolores O'Riordan

Room service is nice. Ooh-la-la, a hotel. At home, it's laundry and school lunches. ”

My priorities were taking the kids to school and being a mum and being a daughter and being a sister. Just spending a lot of that time with my family that I'd probably lost a lot of, touring with the Cranberries. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

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 always come across like I'm looking serious, but I just don't like smiling. Honestly, obviously I'm different in person. ”

One day we were in Limerick... and then, a few weeks later, we were being flown around to play. When we started, it was just a hobby. It wasn't any big ambition. ”

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

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. ”