Emusic Q&a: Sinead O'connor

It was perhaps the most shocking crash and burn in pop music history. With her 1987 debut, The Lion and the Cobra, 20-year-old Sinead O'Connor staked her claim as one of the most powerful voices of her generation — a potential that was fully realized three years later when the follow-up, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, became an international sensation. But after engaging in some high-profile squabbles with everyone from Frank Sinatra to the Grammy Awards, in 1992, O'Connor tore up a photograph of the Pope on Saturday Night Live and declared, "Fight the real enemy"; the next week she was booed off the stage at a Bob Dylan tribute concert, and her album of standards, Am I Not Your Girl? (recorded years before Rod Stewart made such things commercially viable), disappeared from sight. One of rock's brightest stars had become persona non grata overnight. Next