He really was amazingly talented, I saw an interview and someone said you could be having a meal with him and he would just get up, walk away and go to the studio because a melody would come to him and he would have to start working on it that very second. You see the interviews with him and while he as very private people labeled him as weird, which might be, yet when you hear him talk he was very soft spoken and probably more normal than 75% the people you meet every day.
He never stopped being a small town Minnesota boy, hell at his house / studio they would have guest DJs and anyone could show up for free concerts, he would play now and then and try out new songs, he was someone who gave back to the community in so many ways. If that's weird then the world can use a hell of a lot more weird.
< rant>If it turns out to be an OD from pain killers that would be a shame, pharmaceutical companies really need to introduce non-addictive painkillers, yet so much of their profits come from pain killers people get addicted to and take for years instead of weeks, they are basically pushers and it needs to stop.< /rant>
and now for something completely different .
Prince on the Muppets