Prince looks for the Purple Banana in LA: Prince has lived in Los Angeles since last spring, after spending years in Minneapolis, holding court in a complex called Paisley Park, where he made thousands of songs, far away from the big labels. Seven years ago, he became a Jehovah’s Witness. He said that he had moved to L.A. so that he could understand the hearts and minds of the music moguls. “I wanted to be around people, connected to people, for work,” he said. “You know, it’s all about religion. That’s what unites people here. They all have the same religion, so I wanted to sit down with them, to understand the way they see things, how they read Scripture.”
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Nov 18 2008 — 12:21am
4 Reader Comments
2:16 pm
Nice piece. Prince seems so calm, and not so afraid of the media.
2:39 pm
just when I think I have Prince pegged I remember that he’s not a woman he’s not a man he is something that i’ll never understand.
um, Prince, the media moguls don’t call it Scripture…it’s Torah.
2:44 pm
Actually, the scripture they read out in Hollywood is Variety magazine.
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4:15 pm
Yeah, Prince is an asshole and I’m boycotting him now. First it was picking on little people for using his songs on youtube videos or whatever, then it was something else I forgot about, and now he’s dissing gay people (oh irony! have you looked in the mirror lately, purple one?).
Prince can go to hell.