Just stumbled on an old org topic (http://prince.org/msg/7/217238?pr), with the following extract from an interview with Waits:

'Musician: Prince has complained about not hearing enough "colours" on the radio, that too many talented people deliberately seek to emulate a formula instead of finding their own voice. Do you agree?

Tom: To an extent. The music business has gotten so sophisticated, people want their head on Prince's body. It's a melting pot, and the nutrition gets boiled out. Prince is rare, a rare exotic bird. Ther's only a few others. To be that popular and that uncompromising. It's like Superman walking through walls.

And in Playboy -

Playboy: Which modern artists do you listen to?

Tom: Prince. He's out there. He's uncompromising, a real fountainhead. Takes dangerous chances. He's androgynous, wicked, voodoo. .'

Does anyone know where this interview is from? Or whether he's known to have said anything else about Prince?

Love that Waits seems to dig Prince!

Never saw this before...

Androgynous Wicked Voodoo...LOVE that!

Superman walking through walls!

Nice find.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3649305/The-inspirational-Mr-Tom-Waits.html

According to the above, orginally from March 1988 Playboy magazine so really at the peak of Prince's golden era (IMO) and I would guess he's thinking about Lovesexy in particular, the wild, daring album cover, the overall crazy originality of it.

luv2tha99s said:

Love it! It constantly surprises me who respects P.

it never surprises me when anyone respects him... particularly musicians

Silvertongue7 said:

The title of this thread reminds me of this pic: https://9gag.com/gag/a3L8...remy-irons