A biography for Princehasn’t been written yet.
“There's a dark side to everything.”
“Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.”
“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.”
“Nobody sues their fans.”
“Each audience is different.”
“I've never stopped writing, never stopped recording.”
“Sometimes ideas are coming so fast that I have to stop doing one song to get another. But I don't forget the first one. If it works, it will always be there. It's like the truth: it will find you and lift you up. And if it ain't right, it will dissolve like sand on the beach.”
“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.”
“You ever get that feeling that you just have too many hits?”
“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.”
“The hardest thing with musicians is getting them not to play.”
“I'm a Jehovah's Witness.”
“I record all the time.”
“When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.”
“So much has been written about me, and people don't know what's right and what's wrong. I'd rather let them stay confused.”
“The voice that U hear is the alchemy of Ur mind.”
“The music industry is a matrix that is counter to what is natural and right.”
“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 knew I had a relationship with God. But I wasn't sure God had a relationship with me.”
“I ain't mad at anybody. I don't have any enemies.”