Zitat des Tages von Prince:
I have a writing addiction.
When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to.
Music is real. It affects people; it's real.
I'm real easy-going.
If you look in the Bible there's no birthdays.
To create something from nothing is one of the greatest feelings, and I would - I don't know, I wish it upon everybody. It's heaven.
Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.
Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.
There's a dark side to everything.
I pushed the envelope as far as it needed to be pushed, and now it's on the floor, and people seem to want it to stay there.
A strong spirit transcends rules.
I like constructive criticism from smart people.
I like Hollywood. I just like Minneapolis a little bit better.
Young people have decided they like to listen to music in a certain way, through ear buds, and that's fine with me as long as it doesn't bother them that they're not hearing 90 percent of the music that way.
There are no great jazz-fusion bands.
I learned from Jimi Hendrix. They all wanted him to do the tricks, and at the end of his career, he just wanted to play. I lived longer than he did, and I can see how those pressures can really play with your head.
I have friends that are gay, and we study the Bible together.
Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word - slavery. I would tell any young artist... don't sign.
Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'
I don't vote and I got nothing to do with it.
Each audience is different.
All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?
My mother told me one day I walked in to her and said, 'Mom, I'm not going to be sick anymore,' and she said 'Why?' and I said 'Because an angel told me so.' Now, I don't remember saying it; that's just what she told me.
Just sharing music with each other - that's cool. It's the selling that becomes the problem.
I don't talk to old people; they try to find ways to stay static. Young folks are the ones with the ideas and constantly moving forward.
I might just stop talking again and not do interviews.
In the tech-savvy, real-time world we all live in today, everything is faster.
Time is a mind construct. It's not real.
You don't need a record company to turn you into anything.
I really believe in finding new ways to distribute my music.
I'm a Jehovah's Witness.
I learned from Jehovah's Witnesses that a fatalistic view is counterproductive.
I used to be more involved with every aspect of everything onstage. I'm way more relaxed now. It feels like anything can happen.
Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.
You ever get that feeling that you just have too many hits?
What's missing from pop music is danger.