Ezra Edelman

By nature of him being five foot two, he's like, he looks like the underdog.

And he is this sort of like pixie fairy purple genius.

But like the guy never stopped working and really worked in service of the fans.

So he lived as a mystery and he died as a mystery.

But like the guy, he was a shapeshifter.

And so he morphed, he changed lives.

And so the guy who became a Jehovah's Witness in, you know, the early aughts and, you know, all of a sudden was like under the...

guidance of larry graham that's a different dude than the dude who did the dirty mind album in 1980 and was singing about you know that's also part of his evolution and so in a lot of ways because there's so many eras i think there's a lot of people um who like

loved different parts of Prince, but I was really interested in trying to find a through line for that person who evolved through all these styles, why he did, what was going on underneath, and trying to sort of find a roadmap and trying to shed light on who this person was.

It's just more like, no one knows who this dude was.

I'm going to try to f***ing figure it out.

I'm not professing to know everything that happened with this person.

It's the best I could do.

This isn't, by the way, like R. Kelly.

And like, it's like we already know what he's guilty of.

And you're just like exposing sort of really horrid truths and that people need to know because this guy's got to go down.

This isn't that.

But people sort of were defensive in terms of like as if he were that.

The relationship to how much people love Prince is

And it's like so who wants this?