Fergal: And if everyone does it, then your voice isn't unique. You get Mariah Carey and all these people. They're all trained, but they all sound the same. It's boring.
Dolores O'Riordan: The thing that makes it separate is that when you're starting a band when you're young, you're into the aspect of pulling people into your gigs and becoming successful. I guess when we started, we became so successful with our first album that the fun went out of the band. I really didn't like the band anymore. We just got sick of it. On this album, we did it for ourselves. There was no pressure, nobody watching us.
Dolores O'Riordan: I hate vibrato! It's disgusting. I remember when Denny Cordell sent me to a vocal coach years ago in L.A. He was lovely, a really nice man, but he was trying to get me to add vibrato, and I hate that. It's just so theatrical.
Fergal: Our parents have always given us that grip on reality, you know? It's never been any of that false bullsh-t where your main goal in life is to have a flash car. That's very important, especially in this industry, which is so false.
Dolores O'Riordan: (On the band's 3rd album) We weren't very aware of units and all this stuff, but on the third album people talked about it casually in front of us.
Dolores O'Riordan: I was raised Catholic and I have a lot of respect for the good in the Catholic Church. But I don't go to church.
Dolores O'Riordan: In the south of Ireland. I'm building a house there overlooking the sea. It's really quiet and peaceful.
The Cranberries' debut album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?, was released in the spring of 1993, followed by a single of Dreams.
The Cranberries' band members, Mike and Noel Hogan, are brothers from Limerick.
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