Remember the good old days of Prince? Back when he wore leg warmers and high-heeled boots with a trench coat. Back when he sang “Soft and Wet.” Back when his song “Darling Nikki” inspired Tipper Gore to establish the Parents Music Resource Center, which has made music warning labels mandatory.

Those days are long gone, as the New Yorker publishes a disturbing portrait of Prince eating carrot soup and comparing his religious awakening to The Matrix, saying, “I don’t see it really as a conversion...more, you know, it’s a realization. It’s like Morpheus and Neo in The Matrix. ”

Since finding God, Prince has gotten to be a bit of a know-it-all. According to the New Yorker, Prince said:

“’So here’s how it is: you’ve got the Republicans, and basically they want to live according to this (the Bible)...but there’s the problem of interpretation, and you’ve got some churches, some people, basically doing things and saying it comes from here, but it doesn’t. And then on the opposite end of the spectrum you’ve got blue, you’ve got the Democrats, and they’re, like, ‘You can do whatever you want.’ Gay marriage, whatever. But neither of them is right.’”

I guess Prince didn’t appreciate Obama’s 2004 DNC speech in which he said, “The pundits like to slice and dice our country into Red States and Blue States, but I’ve got news for them too. We worship an awesome God in the Blue States… and have gay friends in the Red States.”

The low point of Prince’s New Yorker interview, however, was probably when the artist formerly prone to releasing records like Dirty Mind got to talking about “sticking it.” Claire Hoffman, his interviewer, wrote, “When asked about his perspective on social issues—gay marriage, abortion—Prince tapped his Bible and said, ‘God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, and he just cleared it all out. He was, like, ‘Enough.’’”

Oh, so that’s what happened! People were “sticking it” and "doing it" all over the place, so God put his foot down...