Prince quotes

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.

People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?

Technology is cool, but you've got to use it as opposed to letting it use you.

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.

I always knew I had a relationship with God. But I wasn't sure God had a relationship with me.

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.

Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'

Technology is cool, but you've got to use it as opposed to letting it use you.

Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'

I'm thankful enough or blessed enough to be able to say that Miles Davis was a friend when he was alive, and he was a wonderful mentor and really, really funny, you know.

You don't have to watch 'Gossip Girl' to have an attitude.

No one can come and claim ownership of my work. I am the creator of it, and it lives within me.

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

The gatekeepers must change.

Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.

People say I'm wearing heels because I'm short. I wear heels because the women like 'em.

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

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.

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

Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.