Sinéad O’Connor: ‘I’ll always be a bit crazy, but that’s OK’

Perhaps O’Connor was always destined to be best known for simply being herself.

Sinéad O’Connor has been pretty much invisible for the past few years. There’s a good reason, though, she tells me with her usual disregard for social niceties. 

“I’ve spent most of the time in the nuthouse. I’ve been practically living there for six years.” She pauses, takes an intense drag on her fag, and warns me off being similarly politically incorrect. “We alone get to call it the nuthouse – the patients.”