Sinead O`Connor won`t date anyone "whose mother isn`t dead"
The `Nothing Compares 2 U` singer - who has been married four times - is upset by people`s attitudes to sex in her native Ireland, and has created an unusual new dating rule for herself.
She said: "You`re not allowed to talk about sex in Ireland. The last four boyfriends I`ve had, their mothers have refused to meet me because I wrote articles about sex. Now I have a rule - I don`t go out with anyone whose mother isn`t dead."
Sinead - who split from her last husband, Irish drugs counsellor Barry Herridge, last year - is also planning to move with her children, Jake, 24, Roisin, 16, Shane, eight and Yeshua, six, from Ireland to London.
She said: "There`s nothing to do but drink. And I don`t drink. Why don`t they sell the whole thing to Australia?"
The 46-year-old singer also says her children are a "stabilising influence" on her and helped her to curb her hard partying ways.
She added in an interview with the Daily Mirror newspaper: "[Motherhood] certainly was a stabilising influence. I`m the type of rock `n` roll chick that would have enjoyed staying up all night being under every drug under the sun. It was good I was a mother early so I couldn`t be f****d up myself. And it influences your songwriting. It makes you concerned with issues that you wouldn`t be if you weren`t a parent."
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