O'Connor: Music saved me
Sinead O'Connor thinks she would "definitely be dead" if it wasn't for music.
The Irish singer explained as a child she prayed to God for a "way out" until she discovered rhythm through her footsteps at the age of six.
She said: "I would definitely be dead if not for music. I prayed very fervently as a small child that God would give me a way out.
"And I remember distinctly walking home down this laneway, I can't have been more than five or six, and with the rhythm of my feet I began to hear music, and within that second I made the association with the Holy Spirit, and I said thanks to it.
"I felt it was the answer to the prayers. I get to stand there and scream and I have a right to, 'cause what else am I gonna do?"
The 45-year-old star, who released her new LP 'How About I Be Me (And You Be You?)' last month, admitted she now sees her records as "diaries".
O'Connor added in an interview with the Daily Telegraph newspaper: "My records are diaries to me. They started out in anger and recovery, and there is a journey and I'm pleased that it has reached a place of happiness."
