“'Linger' was the first song I wrote after joining the Cranberries. I w...” — Dolores O'Riordan Quote

“'Linger' was the first song I wrote after joining the Cranberries. I was 18, and the youngest member of the band was 16 at the time. We never imagined it'd be such a big hit.”

“I went very close to the edge, but it's nice to have been strong enough to get through it. I'm lucky I had family, a good husband, and my mom. People like that help balance you. When you're feeling down and bad, it's the people that love you who kind of sort your head out for you.”

“It's important to take time off because it's a long journey this life, and I want to be singing in 30 years' time. You see a lot of artists who get caught up in the here and now, and they just burn themselves out, and I kind of did that myself with my third album.”

“To me, life is a bit of everything. I have the band, I have my kids. Life is a big picture. It's not just your career.”

“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.”

“When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.”

“I did many films with Vinod. 'Mera Gaon Mera Desh' was a very big hit.”

“I couldn't have known 'Crank' was going to be published, let alone become a big hit. That book was very personal for me: I had to tell the story for myself.”

“It never occurred to me that it would be a big hit internationally and forever.”

“I would go for the biggest guy on the team, dump the puck in. I would chase after it because I was very fast. If I wanted to get a big hit, I would have to leap into the guy. The guy would be maybe a 6-3 defenseman, 220, I would leap into this guy and plow him over. He would just fall to the ground. That was my thing.”

“You can't get the big hit every night.”