Dolores O'Riordan in June 2011.
Lead singer of the Cranberries, Dolores O'Riordan, has revealed to the Telegraph how quitting music and starting a family brought her back from the brink.
"By the third Cranberries album I started to lose the plot. We'd signed up to tour for two years straight, and I can't remember much of that time because it was all about getting up early, working, working, working, and then trying to catch some sleep before getting up again. I was so famous that I couldn't leave the hotel room. I remember looking out of the window at all these fans but just feeling so isolated."
"Soon enough I hit rock bottom. I thought the best thing to do to bring me back to reality would be to have a child, and by the time I had my first, Taylor, when I was 25, we'd sold 35 million records as a band and I'd had enough; I knew my sanity was more important than success."
"I breast–fed and stayed at home and eventually, when I felt like going back, I worked for a few weeks and then came home for a few weeks. I promised myself that never again would I go off for a year at a time and lose touch with everything that was important to me. I had my second child, Molly, at 28 and my third, Dakota, at 31. My kids mean more to me than anything I thought was important when I was younger."
After a six-year hiatus, The Cranberries have reunited, with the their sixth album, Roses, due to be released in late February 2012.
