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1st August 2023
11:51am BST
"When the artists are dead, they're much more valuable than when they're alive... It's kind of gross what record companies do. "That's why I've always instructed my children since they were very small, 'If your mother drops dead tomorrow, before you call 911, call my accountant and make sure the record companies don't start releasing my records and not telling you where the money is.'"O'Connor had four children: Jake Reynolds, Roisin Waters, Yeshua Bonadio and her late son Shane Lunny, who tragically died aged 17 last year. The Dubliner also made reference to Prince as examples of artists whose unreleased work was released in the aftermath of his death without his consent. "All musicians, we have songs that we really are embarrassed about that are crap. We don't want anyone hearing them. "Now this is a man who released every song he ever recorded, so if he went to the trouble of building a vault, which is a pretty strong thing to do, that means he really did not want these songs released. And I can't stand that people are [releasing them]."
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