When music legend Prince was in the mood to open up to the media, the one person he would talk to was a fellow Minnesota resident, Neal Karlen. Now, still in the shadow of Prince's passing in many ways, Neal Karlen has produced what may be the definitive portrait of the real Prince. This Thing Called Life by Neal Karlen finds the Rolling Stone writer and New York Times contributor digging into his vast archive of conversations with Prince to get to the heart of who Prince really was behind the image and the remarkable art.