How do you prepare for an audience with Prince?
It feels like there should be a purple velvet handbook, some kind of formal protocol.
Does he expect visitors to bow and avoid direct eye contact?
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Would dressing in his favorite color kindly him, or is that like wearing white to a wedding?
How many topics are off-limits for such a famously private star?
The focus should be on his upcoming album,HITNRUN, and his voice could not be recorded.
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Deep-fried cheese didnt seem to be the secret to Princes own sylphlike figure.
Youve got to burn it down and start again).
At various points he compared the work to a matrix or to falling down the stairs.
I dont know it….
The Warner people werent bad, he said.
Ive known some of them half my life.
The when was especially important.
But for him, it was all integrated.
Hours later, though, my phone started to ping.
Until last week, when there were suddenly different questions: Had he looked ill?
Could I tell something was wrong?
He didnt, and I couldnt.
