Quotes from Prince

What if half the things ever said / Turned out to be a lie / How will you know the truth / If you were given all the answers / And you stopped to wonder why...

I don't want anyone to fail, so if you can make money off music even though you can't sing or dance, that's genius.

I might just stop talking again and not do interviews.

Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word - slavery. I would tell any young artist... don't sign.

Don't know what 2 say about Dunk-a-roos. They're just good! Sometimes you want a food that is comfortable and takes you back. For me, it's those crazy little kangaroo crackers.

I'm going down 2 Alphabet Street I'm gonna crown the first girl that I meet I'm gonna talk so sexy She'll want me from my head 2 my feet.

I like constructive criticism from smart people.

YouTube is the hippest network, and they abuse copyright right and left.

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 always wanted to make a three-record set. 'Sign o' the Times' was originally supposed to be a triple album, but it ended up as a double.

When you sit down to write something, there should be no guidelines. The main idea is not supposed to be, 'How many different ways can we sell it?' That's so far away from the true spirit of what music is.

I like Hollywood. I just like Minneapolis a little bit better.

I don't believe in singles. The singles market has changed. I am trying to get back to the old days of releasing albums at will, like Star Wars coming out again.

I used to have seizures when I was young. My mother and father didn't know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had.

Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.

If you see a man opening a car door for a woman, it means one of two things: it's either a new woman or a new car!

Well, my musicians are my friends.

The music industry is a matrix that is counter to what is natural and right.

I've always understood the two to be intertwined: sexuality and spirituality. That never changed.

When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.

I don't see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won't pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can't get it.

It's fun being in Islamic countries, to know there's only one religion. There's order. You wear a burqa. There's no choice. People are happy with that.

There are people who are unhappy with everything.

I don't live in the past. I don't play my old records for that reason. I make a statement, then move on to the next.