Dolores O'Riordan Quotes

For the first six or eight months at Juilliard I felt paralysed. I didn't know what I was doing.

At times, I feel like I got the world on my shoulders.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.

All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.

I was so worried about winning, it was as if I was caught up in my own web.

My performance level has risen - and my anxiety-level has sky-rocketed.

I'm not coping very well with all the attention, if I'm honest.

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what you're doing.

There was a lot of pressure on me when I was 18, 19 to move to America. I went out for a couple of weeks and hated it. I thought I could go out my mind. You could really see how people could go off the rails.

Does anybody know what I'm doing up here?

I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.

I'm going to do my best to do both and die of an ulcer at age 30.

There is such a hype and a big build up to me, and it's very hard to meet those expectations. That's been a big stress in my life.

I have dreams where everything will disappear or go away, so I'm always working harder each year.

I've cried multiple times after posting a video. So much work goes into each video that I don't know how I'm still alive.

When you try to do everything perfectly, it gets very tiring.

Sometimes I put too much pressure on my back.

Fame is very heavy. When there are large crowds, I'm unable to handle it.

I think women can relate to the feeling that we're internalizing too many demands, and we're trying to be good at everything, but one day, we're going to snap.

I feel like people expect a lot from me.

I don't enjoy being interviewed. I feel like it exhausts a lot of my energy. I feel empty after.

I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.

Just the life of doing what I do, being in the public eye, it's a stressful environment... You feel strange, self-aware, very foolish. Your third eye clicks on, just to try to maintain a healthy sense of perspective, and you think, 'What am I doing here? I'm just making a movie, and people want all these things from me.'