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- You can always renegotiate a record contract. You just go in and say, You know, I think my next project will be a country-and-western album.
- People say I’m wearing heels because I’m short. I wear heels because the women like ‘em.
- Cool means being able to hang with yourself. All you have to ask yourself is ‘Is there anybody I’m afraid of? Is there anybody who if I walked into a room and saw, I’d get nervous?’ If not, then you’re cool.
- I never really got off on awards so much. I think it’s more for the people who give them and also for the fans. I get a lot of props from people in the street and a lot of love and congratulation, pats on back, so it’s a good feeling you know the aftereffects.
- Being around great musicians always gives me this energy. I’ve had it my whole career. I look at some of the newer artists onstage that are performing with the tape rolling and they’re good performers, but they’re looking tired and sweating after a few songs. That’s because what they’re doing is so predictable.
- But again, it’s the record company. If they don’t want to promote a song, they don’t make the effort to cross it over into other markets, and the fans don’t get to know it. It’s the same with my albums.
- Charlie Chaplin started having kids at 60-just decided he wanted to have kids then. I still feel the same as I’ve always felt. Better now, because I’m happier.
- Do you know how many of my songs I own? Not a single one. Out of 16 albums, not a single one. They won’t belong to my children. I won’t be able to pass them on to my grandchildren. They belong to someone else. Why? It’s my music.
- I always used to cuss onstage… Now I’ve learned that that’s not necessary.
- I went to see the Jackson Five when I was a kid, and they all wore flat shoes and it didn’t work.
- I’m much more comfortable with doing interviews now because I’m harder to misquote. Everything I’m about is freedom of choice and knowing what the truth can do.
- In the early years when I toured, I was never a tourist. I was always so focused on the show. I just wanted to tear it up and get out of town.
- 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.
- Now there’s no one to go and see. Where are the young ones coming along to whoop us up? Who is there to go and see? Fem 2 Fem?
- On the next tour I’m gonna do, it’s gonna be more of a revue-type thing with all good acts. The show might start at four o’clock in the afternoon. There’d be Mavis, Maceo, Lenny, Santana, and the Family Stone and us. I just want to be around people that are about positivity.
- We don’t celebrate birthdays like we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving. Because you’re told you’re supposed to retire at a certain age.
- What if I don’t want to sing Purple Rain every time I go on stage? The fans don’t want that, either. It’s my music, they’re my songs.
- Why does there have to be a soundcheck? I don’t have a songcheck. You don’t have a clothescheck.
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