But the thing is, it wasn't at the end of his life. On our last phone call, he said: "I'm tired." In 31 years, that was the only time I ever heard him say "I'm tired." It's heartbreaking what happened. Losing those two children destroyed him.and that he couldn't dance and wouldn't be able to play the piano or guitar much longer. The second was the physical pain Prince was in after years of performing. The first was the death of his one-week-old son Amiir in 1996, followed by his wife Mayte's miscarriage. You describe two big things that broke Prince down. He'd be sleeping in his bed and if he wanted to run away from home, he'd draw a window and climb down that. Harold was this little boy who could draw himself out of whatever reality he's in with this purple crayon. You write that Prince's love of the color purple came from the classic children's book Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson. I think they'll be ground on Paisley Park condos in 30 years, and it'll come up. The estate has sold off little parcels of land already. He said the time capsule was buried on the grounds of Paisley Park. He said it was going to be buried in a time capsule with his will and the Love Symbol album. I interviewed him about why he was changing his name to a glyph. He paid me to write a magazine article for him. It looked like rap and hip-hop had totally passed him by. He was very fed up with the music business. Only his manager and myself knew that he was changing his name to that. I thought: "He's gonna die there alone."Īnother revelation in your book is that in the '90s Prince commissioned you to draft a manifesto about changing his name to an unpronounceable symbol, and that the document was supposed to accompany a will. And I asked, "What does Paisley Park mean?" He said: "It's a place where you can go to be alone." I'm not a believer in premonitions, but I got this shiver up my back. There's so many reasons he could have given me, and he said: "I don't want my fans to think I live in a prison." I remember on that first trip, he showed me the land where Paisley Park was going to be built it was just a field then. The first question I ever asked him on the record, "So why are you talking now?" after three years. The word "prison" pops up throughout the book. He just wanted the music to stand out from his life story.
It was a slight twist of a fact: he turned the story completely around. Is it true that Prince taught himself to play the piano when his stepfather locked him in a room with one for six months? When he was 25, he said: "I used to be an expert at cutting people off and never looking back." And he was that way his entire life. He had his marriage to Mayte Garcia not just divorced, but annulled. That's what he would do: he sort of annulled the past.
And after his father died, he had the famous purple house that he gave to his dad leveled. I think his father is the defining thing in Prince's life. His father was an incredible narcissist-his son had the career he wanted. He got the talent in his genes somehow, but also that drive to go to the top.Ī good portion of the book deals with Prince's relationship with his father. He said, "I used to tease journalists, because I wanted them to focus on the music I was making and not the fact that I came from a broken home." He was broken by his father, but it also made it possible for him to become what he became. Why did he spread so many misconceptions about himself?
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