Say here in this AP story that Prince is cleaning up his act:

"I have a responsibility to (young fans) to perform in a manner that I would like my children to be performed in front of," he says in an interview to air Tuesday on CBS News' "The Early Show."

"I just want to be the best human being I can be ... on stage and off," he says.

The AP writer missed (or more likely just didn't want to list) the really bad Prince songs, including obviously "Sexy MF," "Pussy Control," "Head," "Sister," and, most notoriously, "Darling Nikki." Good times.

Of course, Prince has been talking like this for awhile now, and apparently has dropped most or all of those songs from his live act. Fortunately, he's got enough classics in all sizes, shapes and styles that he could do a two hour show of just religious classics from the catalog if he so desired. "The Cross" would make a most excellent concert finale.

Of course, the tension or contradiction between sexual and spiritual urges has always been a major source of the Prince artistic dynamic. He came from a Seventh Day Adventist background- the same basic group from which David Koresh's Branch Davidians had splintered. Thus, I'm still puzzled that no one but me has connected the Waco standoff with "7," which was a major top 10 hit right at the time of the standoff. That would be the same 7 seals of the apocalypse that Koresh wanted time to write a book about.

That aside, he's wrestled with the angels and demons over where sex and love and God all meet or don't, including such classics as "Temptation," in which God himself comes down to declare "You have to want it for the right reasons." This involves Prince apparently literally wrestling with an angel for his very life for his sexual immorality.