Sinéad O’Connor’s radical honesty

O’Connor and I talked over Skype about her approach to videos and how she’d wanted to present herself. She said that after she’d signed her record contract, “two guys from the record company basically described their mistresses and decided I should look like them. My way of answering was to get my head shaved. I didn’t want to be pushed or advertised as some kind of pretty girl. And I didn’t want to be governed by middle-aged blokes telling me what I should look like.” From the start of her...