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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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