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...what else has O'Connor been doing these past few years? Well, O'Connor, whose last full-length album, Universal Mother, was released in 1994, says she's been raising her son Jake, 11, and her daughter Roisin, 3. (O'Connor is divorced, and her children have different fathers, the former by an ex-husband, the latter by an ex-boyfriend.) She has also passed the time deciding which record company she wanted to move to after her old label, Chrysalis, went under (she is now signed to Atlantic). She has gone through years of therapy (she has charged...
Faith and Courage is one of the best CDs of the year. On her past albums, O'Connor's songs burned with anger. Her new album, for which she recruited a wide range of producers, including hip-hopper Wyclef Jean, radiates forgiveness, and the music is often as sweet and smooth as strawberries and cream. A few tracks, including The Healing Room, beam with sunny reggae rhythms. The album is dedicated to "all Rastafari people." In one song, What Doesn't Belong to Me, O'Connor sings from the perspective of God, rejecting the self-segregation in the world...
Even when taking on the guises of God and Ireland, of course, O'Connor seems to be singing about herself. When she writes, the music flows from some deep, hidden spring. "I don't ever sit down and try to write songs," she says. "I believe they write themselves and that they're in the air and in your soul. I start hearing them inside myself, and I don't make any effort; I just walk around for a month or so and let the song sing itself inside of me and then usually it's complete before...
...have a huge calling toward celibacy, which will probably ultimately be the way I'll go," says O'Connor. "Obviously I am a very sexual person, and that's why it's a struggle." O'Connor opens up her jacket to reveal her sleek figure. "I do insist on wearing very feminine and feminine-cut priest gear," she says. "And I don't feel that being celibate means I have to cut off my sexuality, because that's my life force...
...Connor says No Man's Woman, the first single off her new album, is actually about celibacy. A few other songs, however, deal boldly with love and lust. On Daddy I'm Fine, O'Connor cries out about feeling "sexy underneath the lights" and yearning to have sex with "every man in sight." Her newfound calling clearly hasn't dampened her rock-'n'-roll spirit. O'Connor may be a priest...