Prince is going to knock on your door
Tonight, that mood of isolation permeates Prince's luxurious 30,000-square-foot Tuscan-style villa, perched high in a gated Beverly Hills enclave. The royal one, clad in a filmy white sweater over a black shirt and slacks with (shocker!) flip-flops, lives solo in the nine-bedroom home, where a cook is upstairs preparing food for a post-midnight gathering with friends and bandmates.
"I'm single, celibate and sexy," he says with a laugh. "I feel free."
After being introduced to Jehovah's Witnesses by friend and bass player Larry Graham, Prince converted in 2001. The onetime voracious womanizer who crooned "Scandalous," "Do It All Night," "Sexy MF" and "Dirty Mind" has purged his lyrics of naughty lingo and spends more time proselytizing than partying.
He's as likely to show up on a neighbor's doorstep with a Watchtower Bible as he is to frequent a hot club.
"Sometimes fans freak out," he says of his missionary encounters. "It might be a shock to see me, but that's no reason for people to act crazy, and it doesn't give them license to chase me down the street."
He's regarded as a maverick for fleeing the label system in favor of innovative distribution. In 2004, he bundled his "Musicology" album with concert tickets, grossing $85.3 million for 94 sold-out shows. Last year, he struck a deal with U.K. national newspaper The Mail, which included Planet Earth in its July 15 edition, leading Sony to cancel the album's British release.
"We weren't trying to upstage the record company," Prince says. "I just wanted to get new music out. I asked Sony, 'Were you planning to sell 3 million copies in London?' I sold 3 million copies overnight. That's a good, clear business deal."
On how being a Jehovah's Witness has changed him:
"I don't celebrate birthdays or holidays. I don't vote." Reviewing a video of the sultry "Te Amo Corazon," he points out his limited physical contact with co-star Mía Maestro of The Motorcycle Diaries. "That's another way faith has changed me," he says. "I did the 'Dirty Mind' tour and pushed that envelope off the table. What I didn't do, Madonna finished. I don't want to go back. You have to get out of your own way."
On conducting business:
"I love to bring the Bible to the table. I ask if they believe in God, then: 'What kind of business do you want to conduct: transparent or hide the ball?' I'll do tours and albums if the deal is clean."
On cyberspace:
"Cyberspace is a black hole to me. YouTube is the hippest network, and they abuse copyright right and left. You see a song like "Purple Rain" turned into "Pure Cocaine"; what should my response be? I chase the money to find out who's behind it. It's a matter of principle. I don't want my music bastardized."
On music:
"Music to me is a life force. It's not what I do. It's what I am."
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idc what this man does, he is amazing.