The admirer Prince was most proud to have: “How much more his words mean”Prince was one of those ethereal people. In this sense, to think of the man being stumped, dumbfounded, or even starstruck seems like a completely foreign thing. But George Clinton has always commanded a certain psychedelic magic like that. “Not long ago I talked to George Clinton, a man who knows and has done so much for funk,” he said in a 1985 interview with Rolling Stone. “George told me how much he liked Around the World in a Day.