Look, you see those groups talkin' about negativity and anger, and they'd do that for two albums, and then you'd see them change up. I knew they couldn't do a Kurt Cobain on their whole career. You can't stay like that all the time. It's like when Hammer tried to go gangster. You can't be something that you're not.
PrinceReal music lovers are actually my favourite kind of people because they like to know, rather than just be told what to think.
PrinceI am a firm believer in reincarnation for people who either have more work to do or have so much debt to pay back that they have to be here.
PrinceWhen I'm writing [songs], some days the pen just goes. I'm not in charge and I'm almost listening outside of it. That's when I realize that we all have to start looking at life as a gift. It's like listening to a color and believing that these colors have soul mates and once you get them all together the painting is complete.
Prince