Sinéad O’Connor opens up about rises to the top, career controversies

TODAY’s Carson Daly catches up with Sinéad O’Connor, the Irish singer, who rose to fame with her 1990 hit “Nothing Compares 2 U” but shocked the world two years later when she ripped up a picture of Pope John Paul II on “Saturday Night Live.” From her home outside Dublin, she tells Carson she “wasn’t never meant to be a pop star,” dishes on Frank Sinatra and discusses her new memoir, “Rememberings.