In a interview in Sweden, Mavis Staples Talked about her time with Prince:



"Our father taught us "there are no big I's and little you's". You're just as good as anyone else. Don't ever think you're any better than anyone else, but don't ever think anyone is any better than you. I said that to Prince one time. In "Melody Cool", I sing "ain't no big I's and little you's" and he stopped the machine and said "what did you say, Mavis?". So, explained it to him. In other words, I'm not so big over you, everybody is the same". Like I said, I never wanted that "Star Trip". I'm just everyday people and I'm just a people person. I just wanna be real and treat everybody right. I do everything. I take my own clothes to the cleaner, I do my own grocery shopping. A lot of my friends have people do that for them, but I'd rather do it myself because if I have to send someone else to do that, how am I gonna communicate with the people? How am I gonna know what the people need? When I go out and people hear my voice, they say "aren't you that Mable Staple?" and I say "yes, ma'am" (laughs). I just enjoy talking with people."



"I was married, in fact, I was married for eight years to a mortician and see, that's another thing, like everything I would tell this little guy Prince, he would write about it. I told him I was married to an undertaker, so he wrote me a song called 'The Undertaker'. The song is talking about how the kids should be staying away from crack and the cocaine. But yeah, I was married to a mortician, in fact, it was the largest funeral parlor in Chicago at the time."



"Yeah! Yeah! Bob Dylan and I courted for about seven or eight years. We were really, really close. He told Pops one day "Pops, I'm wanna marry Mavis". Pops said "well, don't tell me, tell Mavis" (laughs). He was real shy, it took a long time for him, he would always talk to my brother at first. And then he finally started talking to me. He was very shy! And right today, he tries to pretend that he's jealous that I got with the little Prince boy. "What are you doing with him, Mavis?" I says "you didn't call me to come with you".



http://www.abc.se/~m8877/Mavis/Int.html