Owen_Husney

Prince loved Minneapolis. My belief is that he loved the isolation that the town gave him to work versus living and working in Los Angeles or New York. Its no secret, and even Prince has mentioned this, that the cold Minneapolis weather kept riff-raff out of the town. Minneapolis is a wonderful town and a peaceful place to live. (in the summer) But the cold is a great creative taskmaster as it keeps you indoors practicing your craft.

Yes he is that good at basketball. I once saw him face a basketball net with a wall behind him. He threw the ball behind his head, it banked off the wall behind him, and bounced into net in front of him... SWISH!

Edit: Spelling

In a word, it sucks.

There is no real true artist development at the record labels today. Labels want everything handed to them on a silver platter. When the bean counters took over the passion left and if your first album does not sell a certain amount, you're dropped by the label. In the early days, Warner Brothers took great care in nurturing a young Prince. I seriously doubt that Prince would have had 1/10th of the development today that he received over 40 years ago by WB. This is a topic of discussion in my book, Famous People Who've Met Me, if you're interested in reading more on this.

I don't want to speak for what he was thinking, but I can only give my opinion.

It seemed like Prince was highly protective of his art and I understood his reasoning and even his battle with Warner Brothers. I have great respect for Warner Brothers and what they did in the early days to help him get on the map. If you're a modern day Mozart, you want to protect your hard work as much as possible.

During the time I was with him, Prince was either writing music, playing music, performing music, or recording music. He took very little time off. Most of the time I was with him perhaps we would go to a movie or go out to eat and then it was back to work. Part of being a great songwriter is being a great lyricist. In my opinion it never seemed like it was a problem for him to write lyrics and seemed to come very naturally. And that is a rare gift. Oddly enough Paul McCartney talked about having that same talent with regard to himself writing lyrics.