Yap Gun!	"George Clinton's Lessons in Living"
George Clinton discusses love, life, and prune juice with Sonia Murray.

"George "Dr. Funkenstein" Clinton.

The following interview was previously printed in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Here George answers life's simple questions as asked by reporter Sonia Murray during this past summer's Smokin' Grooves tour, which P-Funk headlined.

Q: What is your greatest fear?

GEORGE: I don't have any. It used to be that I would jump off the stage and my sheet would come off and I would be out there (in the audience) totally nude. But since it happened, I don't fear that anymore.

Q: Most treasured possesion?

GEORGE: The Mothership.

Q: Greatest extravagance?

GEORGE: The Mothership.

Q: What do you like most about yourself?

GEORGE: That nothing much bothers me. I'm one of those people who can do the best they can at whatever, leave it alone, and not feel guilty.

Q: What is the trait you most deplore in others?

GEORGE: Full of shitness. Just being full of yourself.

Q: What is the trait you most deplore of yourself?

GEORGE: Being full of myself.

Q: What do you have in your refrigerator?

GEORGE: Prune juice. So I won't be full of shit.

Q: Which living person do you most admire?

GEORGE: Whoopi Goldberg. She's really got that tempo thing down. And with her living in Hollywood, that's something to admire. She shoots straight from the hip, trusts her intuition, and says what she wants without thinking about it.

Q: What is your idea of perfect happiness?

GEORGE: Just being able to persue happiness. I think a lot of people take that freedom for granted. I don't.

Q: When and where were you happiest?

GEORGE: Now. Right now. The fact that I'm still here, I'm not tired and people still want to see me has me the happiest I've been in my life.

Q: What is the quality you most like in women?

GEORGE: This is a family interview, right? Well, keeping that in mind, I would say understanding.

Q: What is the quality you most like in men?

GEORGE: The same.

Q: Where would you like to live?

GEORGE: On a farm anywhere.

Q: What or who is the greatest love of your life?

GEORGE: The FUNK! I'm strung out on it.

Q: What do you like most about your appearance?

GEORGE: That I look like I don't care about my appearance.

Q: Who's your favorite hero of movies?

GEORGE: Whoever Peter Sellers plays. He's the goofiest dude in the world.

Q: Your breakfast usually consists of what?

GEORGE: Some eggs, some toast, orange juice. It's probably the most normal thing about me.

Q: What album do you think everyone should own?

GEORGE: There's a Riot Goin' On and Fresh by Sly and the Family Stone. Parliament-Funkadelic Live [One Nation editor's note: referring to current album, Live and Kickin']by George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars.

Q: How would you like to die?

GEORGE: I'm not going to.

Q: If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be?

GEORGE: A backbeat.

Interview © Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 1997