There's not much I can add that others haven't already expressed. Sorry if what I'm going to say is so stream of consciousness and depressing but I don't really have anyone I can talk to about what feels like a real bereavement. I've lost many special people in my life and what hits me each time is the concept of time. For me it's not a trick but something I want back. From the time I heard the awful news I count backwards and think if only we could go back 'x' number of hours... this time yesterday Prince was alive. Did he have any inkling about what was to come. When he woke up on the last day of his life could he or anyone else think he would be making headlines a few hours later?

Like others here I grew up with Prince but I really related to him not only through his magnificent music but through his life experience as an outsider, which I could really relate to - he seemed like a person I could be good friends with. His death feels like part of me has died. It seems like a whole part of my life has ended and I find it difficult to watch the stream of videos I see on the news and think the person in those images - the person who was alive and kicking a week ago - is gone forever. I know people will say he lives on through his music but right now I can't hear his music without feeling I'm listening to a ghost - it's so difficult to process. Little things irk me - why do the media always make so many errors when chronicling his life (e.g. The Guardian in the UK says Wendy played the guitar solo in PR! BBC fucks up the dates of his music - 1999 is from 1984?)? Why do they always play the most famous commercial songs and not the true range of his musical experimentation?

I have an image in my mind that I wish I could paint. Prince is entering heaven througha bright light with all the greats he admired waiting for him - James Brown, Hendrix, Sly Stone, John Lennon, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury, Bowie - in the light applauding and high-fiving him. In the distance are his mother and father holding baby Gregory in their arms as he runs towards them.

Love to Prince, his family and friends and to all of you.