He was adept at saying one thing and doing another - and coincidentally - addictive personalities are like that too.

I was thinking about this myself. I know when I'm taking hydrocodone, I don't act "high" or "out of it" but I tend to get a lot of really ambitious ideas; writing stuff down, telling friends "let's do this and that soon", impulsively beginning a book or a drawing and then immediately forgetting about it or never getting back to it the next day/week/whatever. The only real "buzz" you get from pain meds, at least at the dose I take, is a sense of calm and well-being. A light euphoria that feeds into the sense that whatever you're doing is right and detracts from worry and anxiety.

That and it makes the pain tolerable.


Painkiller use would explain a lot about Prince's propensity for often promising "big things" and then not following through, as well his tendency to just blast out an album or a show out of nowhere.

PaisleyPrint said:

PaisleyPrint said:

I could not have put it any better. About two weeks after Prince died, when everybody/everything was in an uproar as to what happened to him, I told a good friend of mine, "I believe Prince did that on purpose". He thought I was crazy ( actually I thought I was too but I couldn't shake that "feeling"). My theory was: Why would anybody want to be alone after a scare like what happened when the plane had to land in Moline. If that were me, and I just didn't want to stay over night, I would hire a private doctor right there on the spot to come back to Minneapolis with me to make sure it didn't happen again (overdosing). But he wasn't concerned. I had just gotten off the phone with that same friend on June 22 when I went online and saw Judith Hill's story from the NYPost.

I immediatly called him back and said, "You gotta see this"! Near the end of her story she said Prince said he could hear the voices of those around him, and he said to himself, "Follow the voices, get back in your body". "It was the hardest thing I've ever dont, to get back in my body like that". I said to my friend, "Now do you believe me"? and we talked ect., ect. Prince was ready to go. Plain and simple. And yes, I too believe he'd been doing drugs/pills since the late seventies/early eighties. I was eleven when "For You" was released and have been following him since the beginning of his career.

Correction: "It was the hardest thing I've ever had to do, to get back in my body like that".

I agree. I too think it may have been on purpose. I'm sure P has been warned by doctors at the Moline Hospital about using pain meds after receiving the "safe shot", and that his tolerance would be greatly reduced. Why then would he use fentanyl (of all pain meds)? He seemed to have told everybody to go home. He seemed to have passed around 3:30 am that awefull night, according to the unsealed documents that were leaked (rigor mortis for about 6 hours). Did he want to make sure nobody would save him a second time? I am not convinced of this but I am certainly inclined to think so. Gotta broken heart again....

herb4 said:

He was adept at saying one thing and doing another - and coincidentally - addictive personalities are like that too.

I was thinking about this myself. I know when I'm taking hydrocodone, I don't act "high" or "out of it" but I tend to get a lot of really ambitious ideas; writing stuff down, telling friends "let's do this and that soon", impulsively beginning a book or a drawing and then immediately forgetting about it or never getting back to it the next day/week/whatever. The only real "buzz" you get from pain meds, at least at the dose I take, is a sense of calm and well-being. A light euphoria that feeds into the sense that whatever you're doing is right and detracts from worry and anxiety.

That and it makes the pain tolerable.


Painkiller use would explain a lot about Prince's propensity for often promising "big things" and then not following through, as well his tendency to just blast out an album or a show out of nowhere.

I might agree with the first part, but the second part not so much because Prince had a history even as a youth of working intently on music so that's was his norm.