Prince Quotes

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

Luck has a lot to do with being a musician.

I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant.

I've been fortunate that when Frank Sinatra was in concert, he would say, 'Here's a song by a wonderful young songwriter, Jimmy Webb,' and I'd be in the front row and stand up. That gets people talking about you.

Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before.

I don't think I was ever designed to be a ubiquitous worldwide star. I'm a singer-songwriter writing quite personal songs. You're not supposed to chuck me on a stage with bells and whistles. There was a struggle ahead after that happened, and perhaps I was trying to write songs to compete in that arena.

There have been artists who've sold out arenas one year, and the next they can't fill a theatre. There's always more to achieve.

I wasn't looking at it like, 'I'm singing for AC/DC.' I was looking at it like, 'Y'know, if I can, and if they think I'm able to do it.'

I think, as a musician and person, Justin Timberlake is someone I've always looked up to.

If you become famous and don't have a live show to back it up, they're not going to pay you any money.

Since I was, like, an infant... I remember being in love with television. I loved listening to music. I wanted to be on records, and I wanted to be on TV.

I know how it feels to be a singer who wants to get discovered.

When our band took off, we were all in this microcosm of a hurricane or whatever it was. It was a crazy, crazy dream come true with nightmares floating around it, and all sorts of stuff was happening, and my Crohn's was happening.

It wasn't the muso thing that got me recognition in the beginning. It was doing 'Wild Thing.'

I commend Chris Brown and Soulja Boy for going out there for so many years and entertaining the people.

I would have loved to have been a rock n' roll star. But none of us was musical, and none of us had any instruments.

Being a rock n' roll star ain't a part-time gig.

I used to have visions of being a star all the time, but I never knew I wanted to be a rapper.

Hillbilly Rock' was the song that opened the door and gave me a reason to get a bus and a band and cowboy clothes to go out there and figure it out in front of everybody. And the hits started coming.

I just wanna be an artist, like someone like Bjork and Kate Bush and Regina Spektor. These are people that have saved people, I think, by being what they are.

I'm out here living my dream. People are listening to my music.

It's difficult, because when you're a popular singer who makes money, you're basically a race horse. And that's how you're treated by the people around you.

Growing up, I've always wanted to be a rock star.

A lot of time, if you spend too much time in Nashville, songwriters get caught up in charts and numbers and the music business politics.

I never thought in a million years I would be in a girl group, so I can't look too deep into the future.