“Prince was very funny. Meeting him was one of the strangest experiences of my life.
He was the sort of person whose very presence completely changed the atmosphere of any room he was in. It’s simply indescribable. When you meet Prince, you don’t just walk up to him and say, ‘Hi, Prince, I’m NOT_a_famous_person_.’ You are summoned. He addresses you by your full name, and you are allowed to speak to him.
Not because you couldn’t say something to him or because it’s forbidden, you just don’t feel right about speaking to him before you’re spoken to. The man had a level of charisma that I’ve only seen in one other person I’ve met, that person being Bill Clinton.
When I met him, he was wearing clothes made of a fabric I’d never seen before, and I felt compelled to, but I didn’t dare touch because, you know, it’s Prince. And touching Prince is a faux pas in the highest degree. He was wearing sunglasses, which is good because I think that if I had made eye contact with him, I would have gone completely blind. One thing that was surprising was that he is not tall. He was shorter than me, even though he was wearing very tall heels.
Everything you’ve ever heard about Prince is true. There was something different about that man. Some people have an aura. They have an energy that radiates around them, which engulfs everything in the room. Unless you’ve been around somebody like Prince, you don’t understand what I’m talking about. You just don’t.” —u/NOT_a_famous_person_
