A Wound Gets Worse When It's Treated

But For Me, I Knew That If I Had A Baby, I Would Have To Take Care Of That Baby, And I Wouldn't Have Been Happy With A Nanny Taking Care Of My Baby And Walking Into The Room And Having My Child Run Across The Room To Another Woman.

I Remember Prince Gave Me A Cassette Of Purple Rain. It Was Like 20 Minutes Long And He Asked Me To Write Something On It. I Tried For A Month And Then He Came To L.a. I Went To See Him And Said, "i Can't Do It. It's Too Perfect. It's Like 'stairway To Heaven.'" He Said Ok And Then I Go, "i Can Keep The Cassette, Right?" He Said, "of Course And Thank You For Trying."

For 70 Nights, Right Across America, I've Been Getting Out There With Two Ex-lovers And We've Been Playing Songs Which Are So Specific About Each Of Us, You Just Wouldn't Know. We're Friends Now But We Can't Forget What Happened Between Us.

We Did The Opening Tailgate Party - I'm Not A Big Football Person - And It Started To Rain. I Was A Little Sick And Went Back To The Hotel Where We Were All Staying. We Didn't Know Whether Prince Was Going To Go On Or Not Because The Rain Got So Bad. He Had Already Prerecorded It Just In Case He Couldn't Go On. So I'm Sitting There Wrapped In Blankets, With A Hot Water Bottle And Hot Tea, And He Goes On And It's The Most Magical Thing I Have Ever Seen.

When You Grow Up As A Girl, The World Tells You The Things That You Are Supposed To Be: Emotional, Loving, Beautiful, Wanted. And Then When You Are Those Things, The World Tells You They Are Inferior: Illogical, Weak, Vain, Empty.