When I got pregnant, I started singing again. It was my saving grace. I literally mean having this amazing human life, and our relationship in the sense of mother and child, redeemed my soul.
We all got older, and we'd tell our children things like, 'Mommy used to be in a famous rock band,' but they didn't believe us. Part of the reason for our reunion was to show our children what we did to make the lives they have possible.
Room service is nice. Ooh-la-la, a hotel. At home, it's laundry and school lunches.
Luckily I don't have a sinful past, because there's nothing you can hide from your kids now.
I think there's a difference between somebody who grows up in Paris or London and goes to Los Angeles. But if you grow up in the green fields, and you rarely go into the city, you're so overprotected that when you do go to L.A., it's almost a bigger slap in the head.
For me, you can't be a big fat pig up there, slovenly and singing croaky and whatnot. You have to work.
Only we were in The Cranberries. Only we know what it was like being in that crazy whirlwind of fame. We have children and spouses and lives, but there is only one Cranberries.
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.