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What gets Smith particularly starstruck are the pop-music idols
of her youth -- Prince, for one, so inspiring his music once made
her fall 40 feet.



"I was playing the song 'Thunder' very loud in my bedroom, very
upset, smoking a fag out the window, which I dropped into the
gutter. When I tried to retrieve it with my feet, I flipped upside
down, hung for a while, listening to these lyrics about promises to
Jesus in the morning light until I had to let go."



She broke her leg, but not her admiration for the Minneapolis
musician she calls "The Man".