Pure conjecture. Same as thinking he's gay or straight.
You just don't know.

Pure conjecture. Same as thinking he's gay or straight.
You just don't know.


I know two things though. He's douchey when it comes to dealing with his fansites and he's talented. All else is conjecture.

I've never viewed Prince as being one who gets lonesome. And that's not because of the random women around him. He just doesn't appear to be the sad, "lonely-type." He may be a loner, but that's very different from feeling oh-so-lonely, lol. Loners prefer and want to be by themselves.

But like people always say: Who knows.

WaterInYourBath said:

What about Prince singing, "Here I am in an all white room, feeling like the color blue?"

Lets not forget the Paisley Park last jam and fundraiser of 2009 -- that was nice and unexpected!

Having met him (briefly), I can confirm that he was very nice. Polite, respectful and humble.

I get the impression that he finds it difficult to communicate with people that he works with, and some people either get him, or they don't.

If you watch Kevin Smith's DVD "An Evening With Kevin Smith", from the stories he tells about when he spent a week working at Paisley Park, you'd think Prince is an asshole. But I think that Kevin maybe mistook Prince's reserved nature for arrogance, and found him difficult to work with because Prince is used to controlling the situation, with people who work for him, as opposed to with him.

It's a pretty consistent theme throughout Prince's career. For example, take into consideration the story of how he fired Owen Husney as his manager. Prince called Owen wanting a space heater for his rehearsal space, and Owen told him he was busy trying to finalize some concerts and to have Andre do it. Then Prince fired him because of that. So the story goes, anyway.

It kinda points towards Prince viewing the relationship as Husney working for him, and Husney viewing it as a mutually beneficial, or equal partnership. Of course as Prince became more famous, it was clear that he was always the bottom line with people he was working with. It had to be his way, or the highway.

The Kevin Smith thing is similar. I'm a fan of Kevin, and although he is a humble guy, he operates in a similar fashion to Prince. He directs and writes his films, and has the final say. Interestingly his next movie, 'Cop Out' starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, is the first film that he has directed without having written it himself. But generally speaking he's usually the person in control of the situation.

But even though he's a long-time fan of Prince, he was never going to view that relationship as him working for Prince, per se. This wasn't going to happen - Kevin was already a successful filmmaker and would have viewed it as a equal partnership to get the desired result. Of course, it all went downhill and that's what you hear about on Kev's DVD.
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sweething said:

Those tickets was $31.21 to see Prince at Paisley Park
The concert Prince did in Paris Tickets cost Euros500 in Paris
U.S Dollars 717.85. So on Prince that was awesome.

boogiebear said:

If you mean the gigs in le grand palais...tickets were 100 euro s....

rafael said:

Maybe you paid for the ticket at that price but some of us didn't. Stickin to
my word. :Those tickets was $31.21 to see Prince at Paisley Park
The concert in Paris some paid Euros 500, U.S Dollars 717.85 and some people paid more at a ticket agent. But some paid Euro 100, U.S dollars 143.47 That's
still Great! Thank You For That. So on Prince that was awesome
[Edited 1/17/10 2:01am]

Having met him (briefly), I can confirm that he was very nice. Polite, respectful and humble.

I get the impression that he finds it difficult to communicate with people that he works with, and some people either get him, or they don't.

If you watch Kevin Smith's DVD "An Evening With Kevin Smith", from the stories he tells about when he spent a week working at Paisley Park, you'd think Prince is an asshole. But I think that Kevin maybe mistook Prince's reserved nature for arrogance, and found him difficult to work with because Prince is used to controlling the situation, with people who work for him, as opposed to with him.

It's a pretty consistent theme throughout Prince's career. For example, take into consideration the story of how he fired Owen Husney as his manager. Prince called Owen wanting a space heater for his rehearsal space, and Owen told him he was busy trying to finalize some concerts and to have Andre do it. Then Prince fired him because of that. So the story goes, anyway.

It kinda points towards Prince viewing the relationship as Husney working for him, and Husney viewing it as a mutually beneficial, or equal partnership. Of course as Prince became more famous, it was clear that he was always the bottom line with people he was working with. It had to be his way, or the highway.

The Kevin Smith thing is similar. I'm a fan of Kevin, and although he is a humble guy, he operates in a similar fashion to Prince. He directs and writes his films, and has the final say. Interestingly his next movie, 'Cop Out' starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, is the first film that he has directed without having written it himself. But generally speaking he's usually the person in control of the situation.

But even though he's a long-time fan of Prince, he was never going to view that relationship as him working for Prince, per se. This wasn't going to happen - Kevin was already a successful filmmaker and would have viewed it as a equal partnership to get the desired result. Of course, it all went downhill and that's what you hear about on Kev's DVD.
[Edited 1/17/10 1:03am]

Thank you for this insightful post

all of you can say he is a nice guy because you never worked with him. i had the displeasure of working with him on the road on the fire it up tour that he did with rick james. prince is a very talented man and i dig his music a whole lot. bottom line he needs to learn how to treat people then he does because being talented gives him no right to treat people with disrespect and rudeness.

sweething said:

Those tickets was $31.21 to see Prince at Paisley Park
The concert Prince did in Paris Tickets cost Euros500 in Paris
U.S Dollars 717.85. So on Prince that was awesome.