“We arrive at this little studio [at Paisley Park] and we look in. He’s there behind the mixing board, and he had on this gold lamé blouse. Very Prince. Immediately, you felt this welcoming energy. He said, ‘You know, it’s a little tiny here, let’s go to the office upstairs, but dim the lights for the doves.’ Of course Prince has doves in his house, right? So, we walk up this candlelit staircase, and I hear cooing. I look over and see this huge, beautiful white birdhouse filled with doves. Soon after that, we go into this office and the first thing I notice is all of these chessboards set up in mid-game. And I just imagined this little genius playing himself, playing guests.” — MSNBC national reporter Trymaine Lee, recounting a 2015 visit to Paisley Park.