Now my reasons for writing songs are wanting to perhaps supply some nurturing, soothing or healing through music - provide little droplets of faith and courage through music. Journalists still ask why she did it, O'Connor said. It was a symbol of tearing down of the church's secrets and lies. Her single No Man's Woman on the new CD sounds feminist. I'm very much a feminist.
Women can say that now without it meaning they hate men.
I adore men. Last year, O'Connor was ordained as a priest in the Latin Tridentine Church, a splinter group of the Roman Catholic church. On the day of the interview, she wore a navy dress, adorned with a crucifix around her neck. She doesn't want to dwell on her ordination because she didn't do it for publicity. I feel a lot less now.