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The New Yorker has an interview with Prince at his new Los Angeles home to
talk about a new book, and during it talk turned to religion.
Seven years ago, he became a Jehovah's Witness. He said that he had moved to
L.A. so that he could understand the hearts and minds of the music moguls.
"I wanted to be around people, connected to people, for work," he said. "You
know, it's all about religion. That's what unites people here. They all have
the same religion, so I wanted to sit down with them, to understand the way
they see things, how they read Scripture."
Prince had his change of faith, he said, after a two-year-long debate with a
musician friend, Larry Graham. "I don't see it really as a conversion," he
said. "More, you know, it's a realization. It's like Morpheus and Neo in
'The Matrix.' " He attends meetings at a local Kingdom Hall, and, like his
fellow-witnesses, he leaves his gated community from time to time to knock
on doors and proselytize. "Sometimes people act surprised, but mostly
they're really cool about it," he said.
Recently, Prince hosted an executive who works for Philip Anschutz, the
Christian businessman whose company owns the Staples Center. "We started
talking red and blue," Prince said. "People with money--money like that--are
not affected by the stock market, and they're not freaking out over
anything. They're just watching. So here's how it is: you've got the
Republicans, and basically they want to live according to this." He pointed
to a Bible. "But there's the problem of interpretation, and you've got some
churches, some people, basically doing things and saying it comes from here,
but it doesn't. And then on the opposite end of the spectrum you've got
blue, you've got the Democrats, and they're, like, 'You can do whatever you
want.' Gay marriage, whatever. But neither of them is right."
When asked about his perspective on social issues--gay marriage,
abortion--Prince tapped his Bible and said, "God came to earth and saw
people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, and he just cleared
it all out. He was, like, 'Enough.' "
Whole interview
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