A biography for Princehasn’t been written yet.
“I'm not one to get bad reviews.”
“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.”
“Like books and black lives, albums still matter.”
“I've always understood the two to be intertwined: sexuality and spirituality. That never changed.”
“Prophecy is what we all have to go by now.”
“You don't have to watch 'Gossip Girl' to have an attitude.”
“Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.”
“I really believe in finding new ways to distribute my music.”
“I think you'll always be able to do what your ear tells you.”
“Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.”
“Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on.”
“There are people who are unhappy with everything.”
“Most artists lose their voice, their hair, and their bands. That's not going to happen to me.”
“Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.”
“I'm not entangled in a bunch of lawsuits and a web that I can't get out of. I can hold my head up... a happily married man who has his head in order. There isn't a bunch of scandal in my life.”
“Just sharing music with each other - that's cool. It's the selling that becomes the problem.”
“There are no great jazz-fusion bands.”
“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.”
“Any business situation is restrictive.”
“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.”