He was impossibly gifted,wilfully obstinate, with a reluctance to comply that made him totally unknowable – just as he intended
Read Alexis Petridis’s interview with Prince from November: ‘Transcendence. That’s what you want. When that happens – Oh, or boy’It seems strange to relate now,but in the early years of Prince Rogers Nelson’s career, there were voices that doubted whether he would ever be truly successful.He was clearly exceptionally talented and possessed a vision for his music that bordered on obstinacy: not only had he produced, or arranged,performed every instrument and composed all but one song on his 1978 debut album For You, he had also somehow contrived to get a record contract with Warner Brothers that entitled him to complete artistic control, and nearly unheard of for a recent artist.
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Source: theguardian.com