It’s frustrating to witness how popular Fairtrade bananas, coffee and tea have become with shoppers and supermarkets while plenty of unfair trade goes on, largely unnoticed, in our own back yard.
In the newspapers the row about the prospect of genetically modified food raged on, and yet here were consumers effectively demanding lambs with four back legs.
Time is a mind construct. It’s not real.
Act your age, not your shoe size.
What people have to realize is that if one has a firm belief in God and the spirit then one does not make statements that are negative and untrue.
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.
Sometimes it takes years for a person to become an overnight success.
I don’t really care so much what people say about me because it usually is a reflection of who they are. For example, if people wish I would sound like I used to sound, then it says more about them than it does me.
As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period.
The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.
I have a very thick skin. I take everything that comes and let it bounce right off me because I know the time will come when nobody will be able to speak falsely.
There is something that happens when you get emancipated. You approach life differently. You eat differently. You respect yourself more. You respect the gift you have been given.
Real music lovers are actually my favourite kind of people because they like to know, rather than just be told what to think.
You can always tell when the groove is working or not.
Ownership, that’s what you give your kids. That’s your legacy.
Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.
Michael Jackson’s album was only called Bad because there wasn’t enough room on the sleeve for Pathetic.
Black people still call me Prince. Sometimes I ask them, “Why do you call me Prince?” And people say, “Because you are a prince to us.” Usually when they say that, you know my heart goes out and I have to say, “I don’t mind your calling me that.”
When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody.
I really believe in finding new ways to distribute my music.