Short Takes : Sinead: It’s a Strain 2 Be No. 1
Sinead O’Connor says the stress of stardom makes it easy to see why some musicians wind up taking drugs.
“The fact that people think of me as a ‘star’ places enormous strain on me,” the 24-year-old pop singer said in the Jan. 14 issue of People magazine. “But it’s good for that to have happened now, while I’m still young and have the time to work it out and get over it, rather than later on.
“I can really understand why musicians end up taking drugs.”
The singer was thrust to the top of her profession in 1990 with the No. 1 hit “Nothing Compares 2 You.” But she said it also was a year of personal upheaval.
“I’d be a liar if I said anything other than that it has been extremely emotionally traumatic,” she said.
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