The 'Nothing Compares 2 U' hitmaker said she was just 20 years old when she released her debut album 'The Lion and the Cobra' in 1987, reported Daily Star.
"There were a lot of good things about it - I was going to make a living being a singer, which was great, because I couldn't do anything else.
"I was headed down a sort of, pretty criminal path and if I hadn't got rescued by music, I probably could have ended up in trouble," she said.