Who would believe that Prince practices abstinence these days? That’s what
life has come to for the twice-divorced, 50-year-old singer who lives alone in a
nine-bedroom, 30,000-square-foot Tuscan style villa in Beverly Hills.

“I’m single, celibate and sexy,” he says with a laugh, during
an at-home interview with USA Today.
“I feel free.”

After being introduced to Jehovah’s Witnesses by friend and bass player Larry
Graham, Prince converted in 2001. The onetime voracious womanizer who crooned Scandalous,
Do It All Night, Sexy MF and Dirty Mind has purged his lyrics of naughty lingo and
spends more time proselytizing than partying.

He’s as likely to show up on a neighbor’s doorstep with a Watchtower
Bible as he is to frequent a hot club.

“Sometimes fans freak out,” he says of his missionary encounters. “It
might be a shock to see me, but that’s no reason for people to act crazy,
and it doesn’t give them license to chase me down the street.”

He turned 50 on June 7, but “being a Jehovah’s Witness, I don’t
celebrate birthdays or holidays. I don’t vote.”

His first book, 21 Nights, comes out Sept. 30 and features 124 never-before-seen
images of Prince (shot by celebrated photographer Randee St. Nicholas) during his
21 sold-out concert performance in 21 nights at London’s 02 Arena last year.
A CD, “Indigo Night,” also comes with the 256-page, coffee table book.

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