258 Quotes by Prince

Michael Jackson's album was only called Bad because there wasn't enough room on the sleeve for Pathetic.

Act your age, not your shoe size.

There's something about having people around you giving you support that is - it's motivating, and once I got that support from people then I believed I could do anything.

Why party like it is 1999 when you can party like it is your birthday?

When 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.

My hat goes off to anybody who can sit down and put their heads together. I am ready for something like that because I am free and I am happy and I have time. There were a lot of things in the way before. I have nothing but time, and I love getting older.

Sometimes it takes years for a person to become an overnight success.

As long as I do not take myself too seriously I should not be too badly off.

It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. And we're in a place now where we all need one another, and it's going to get rougher.