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"Sinead O&amp;#039;Connor has credited Bob Dylan with helping her cope with trauma in her personal life. The singer&amp;#039;s marriage to husband Barry Herridge has made headlines over the last few months after the couple split and reunited several times. O&amp;#039;Connor also alarmed fans by reaching out to her Twitter followers for psychiatric help after apparently trying twice to commit suicide.   In an interview with USA Today, the &amp;#039;Nothing Compares 2 U&amp;#039; singer said that the Christian songs Bob Dylan recorded in the late &amp;#039;70s and early &amp;#039;80s helped her regain control of her life. &amp;quot;The reason I&amp;#039;m alive is that people gave me hope. Bob Dylan, in particular, you know what I mean?&amp;quot; O&amp;#039;Connor told the newspaper. &amp;quot;Artists keep people alive. We&amp;#039;re meant to give people hope. \u00E2\u20AC\u00A6 Where you have war, you have a spiritual problem.  &amp;quot;So the spiritual leaders of the world are failing. I believe the job of artists is to be the emergency fire force. As well as shaking our [breasts].&amp;quot; O&amp;#039;Connor also explained that finishing her new album How About I Be Me (And You Be You) was very rewarding because it allowed her to focus on her needs. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve spent all my life as an artist being told what I should be and what I shouldn&amp;#039;t be - basically, why don&amp;#039;t you just be somebody else,&amp;quot; she recalled. &amp;quot;I just got sick of it, because I was having so much fun doing what I was doing, and I was being me. &amp;quot;I was going to call it just How About I Be Me, but I thought that was selfish, and that I should express that I don&amp;#039;t mind you being you, either.&amp;quot; How About I Be Me (And You Be You) is now available for purchase in the US and is released on March 5 in the UK. &amp;gt; Sinead O&amp;#039;Connor offers to pose for Playboy Listen to Sinead O&amp;#039;Connor&amp;#039;s cover of the Bob Dylan song &amp;#039;Property of Jesus&amp;#039; below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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