From Entertainment Weekly’s Entertainers of the Year:

For Prince, the best part of his ’04 triumph was

that it was all about the music, not about marketing or his celebrity.

”It surpasses the Purple Rain tour. This was self-generated

hype: no movie, no major radio airplay or support from the video

channels. It was really a testament to live music,” he says. ”This is

what we do for a living. Every night was a stone gas, baby!”