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Highlights
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“I’m trying to open your mind so you can understand the world and where you’re from.”
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“Liv? I love your voice. I want to work with you. Do you want to go somewhere warm?” I’m thinking, What? Really? I went to Paisley Park, and he was as warm and as inviting as could be.
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Dr. West, who was talking about freedom fighters and Curtis Mayfield. He said, “Prince is great, but he’s no Curtis Mayfield.” Prince was like, “Okay, we’ll see,” and wrote “Born 2 Die.”
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what I kept getting from Prince ever since the first day I met him is that he was searching for this spiritual understanding of who he was, why he was here, what he was here to do
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he always felt like on the other side, there’s this beautiful thing to look forward to
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When he asked us to hold that note, he said, “What, y’all can’t do it?” and then did it himself. He just gave this look. You know Prince be giving looks. He did it and said, “Now you girls go do it.” Then he walked out of the room.
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Prince was able to just know how far to push an artist. He used to tell me sometimes, “Morris, it is very difficult for people to produce themselves. You really have to take yourself outside of yourself.” Because what you do is you set these limits for how hard you can hit it or how high you go. Most people don’t go the extra mile. You have to have that pushed out of you. There have been so many times where I look back like, How the hell did I do it? If left to my own devices, I wouldn’t have. But he knew how to push that out and bring the next level out of everybody he worked with.
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I hate to tell on him, but Prince was a terrible driver. He went too fast.
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Prince always knew when it was the right time to do the right thing, and I know that sounds simple, but if you want to understand Prince, understand he’s the kind of person that is going to do what he wants to do. I think he just put the album away, thinking maybe it wasn’t the right time. Prince was prophetic. He was writing “1999” in 1982. Welcome 2 America was like a little time capsule he put aside. The album was done.
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Everybody’s always trying to pin a logic on Prince. He didn’t have to be logical for you and me.
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Music flowed through him. Thoughts and energies flowed through him. And you had to be able to roll with that. Some people need to know the answer to everything. They need explanations all the time. That’s just not the way it worked in Prince’s world.