Hey, it takes time to get ready, live the natural routine of the day,
and work and work...doesn't anyone realize that Prince might not want to come out to play sometimes....Especially if a bunch of strangers are going to expect anything other than what Prince is offering at the time.

GiGi319 said:

im sorry but thats not insecurity. thats being an unapprochable superstar role.
we all have issues and prince is also insecure about certain things but nothing major. Hes overconfident when hes onstage tho'...cant u see that?
[Edited 10/6/07 10:52am]

GiGi319 said:

i would agree with your last sentience - looking at all the photos on here, the most natural ones are those where he is on stage and he usually looks extremely happy

Vanity45 said:

WELL SAID!

To love and accept himself is what it takes for Prince to feel loved and accepted. Nobody can love him enough, if he doesn't love and accept himself!

wlcm2thdwn said:

I know what you mean. Prince is exactly like all those women who refuse to leave the house without their makeup on. Have we ever seen him in public without some level of artificial beautification? No. Even pictures people like to post here to prove how little makeup he sometimes wears feature him having it caked on thick.

That Prince wears makeup and pretty things constantly though, and didn't in just some phases of his career like Bowie, or just for the camera like Boy George, is mighty damned interesting. Secure or insecure, Prince is just not a macho kind of guy.

electrorock said:

Overconfidence is one of the first and strongest signs of insecurity. It's rare that a person is genuinely full of himself and not just trying to compensate.

Prince has a lot of fans and peers that love and respect his musical talent. Prince has fans that love him as "pop star Prince". But at the end of the day that isn't the same as having people who know the real you, love you for you and accept and respect you for you, warts and all.

Prince is surrounded by employees, yes people that at the end of the day just go home. Who aren't going to give their honest opinion (he might not want it?) because it is their income at stake. He also has wanna be starlets and musicians who I'm sure admire him and love the fact they get a chance to work with him but their main interest at the end of the day is furthering their own ambitions.

Prince to me (and I could be very wrong) seems like a very lonely man with not many *real* friends and the bottom line is you can be surrounded by a lot of people but feel very lonely because you have no one who really *gets you*. Maybe this is why Prince has a wall up,if he has some one that gets him, he might feel safe enough to show his inner feelings knowing he can trust that person not to ridicule him. Imo this is the true love and acceptance Prince is craving for.

purpleoz said:

You know what? That makes a lot of sense. And deep down, I believe that's true of him as well.
I believe that music has always been his first love and his soulmate needs to be someone who loves music as much as he does and is willing to accept it will always be his first love. And someone that is able to draw out who he truly is and make him feel confident with that person.

I can see why Prince shuts down websites - having your life picked over, criticised and generally discussed to death must be pretty nauseating

ritaw said:

He might not like the fact, that strangers discuss his life, but I think he knows by now that there is a prize to pay for being famous. He doesn't have to be in the public eye, he is doing it by choice.
The moment people stop talking about Prince, they're not interested anymore.
And with Prince it's almost impossible to seperate the person from the music.
He tells us a lot about himself through his music. Many of his songs seem to be inspired by more fact than fiction.

GiGi319 said:

true, true...
I always thought that what he writes about in his music is things he wish he had done or things he had done. Each song is a little part of him, one of his thoughts frozen in time.

But I think a lot of the time, he puts on an act in his music. Either to have a little fun or express what he wish he could openly but behind a mask he wears.
I think that the person within the music is very different than the person behind the music. Onstage and offstage Prince are two very different personalities, but every now and then, they blend. So it still is pretty difficult to tell the two apart.

a LOT more love around here.

DreamyPopRoyalty said:

I think everyone that composes and writes the lyrics to a song has to be inspired on some level by something that is going on in his/her life at the time.
Fact or fiction,it offers a pretty good look into someone's personality, imo.
Of course, that goes only for the artists that write their own songs, and not the so called artists that sing the songs someone else has written for them.

purpleoz said:

I agree with your statements. It all boils down to trust!

govinda said:

Another good point. And it's true, while here we are wondering and speculating, we really don't know Prince.

ritaw said:

While I do feel a level of guilt for discussing and inquiring about him, I'm pretty sure he knows that his position in the public eye people will talk about him. But I see where you're coming from, some of the things said about him by fans and all might hurt!

ritaw said:

When he's on stage work takes over and I agree that's because he's comfortable. With him being shy and all I kind of wondered about him being able to perform in front of thousands of people, this might be the answer to that question. (saves me from starting another thread)