There's not a lot of pop music in the mainstream that makes you feel scared, that makes you wonder what's happening.
Just sharing music with each other - that's cool. It's the selling that becomes the problem.
It might be a shock to see me, but that's no reason for people to act crazy, and it doesn't give them license to chase me down the street.
Every year, they ask me to play the Grammys.
It's work to play the same songs the same way for 70 shows.
I don't want anyone to fail, so if you can make money off music even though you can't sing or dance, that's genius.
I don't know who was the one that came up with the notion that you have to play the same songs every concert.
Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on.
It gets embarrassing to say something untrue because you put it online and everyone knows about it, so it's better to tell the truth.
I record all the time.
I always knew I had a relationship with God. But I wasn't sure God had a relationship with me.
I always wanted to make a three-record set. 'Sign o' the Times' was originally supposed to be a triple album, but it ended up as a double.
My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn't as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him, and I taught myself how to play music, and I just stuck with it, and I did it all the time.
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.
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.
I don't talk about the past.
The music industry is a matrix that is counter to what is natural and right.
Technology is cool, but you've got to use it as opposed to letting it use you.
People say I'm wearing heels because I'm short. I wear heels because the women like 'em.
Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.
Time is a mind construct. It's not real.
I've always understood the two to be intertwined: sexuality and spirituality. That never changed.
Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.
Too much freedom can lead to the soul's decay.
A strong spirit transcends rules.
To create something from nothing is one of the greatest feelings, and I would - I don't know, I wish it upon everybody. It's heaven.
There's a dark side to everything.
Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.