People don't look at you singing. They go within themselves and listen. Music is about listening, not looking. That's why I wore these huge baggy dresses on stage with The 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.
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.
For me, you can't be a big fat pig up there, slovenly and singing croaky and whatnot. You have to work.
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.
Luckily I don't have a sinful past, because there's nothing you can hide from your kids now.
