Prince Quotes

MTV didn't exist in 1980, but by 1982, it had gotten to be a force to be reckoned with.

MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.

When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform.

I was an MTV guy back in the day.

MTV ruined music for us.

I'm not in that state of mind that I was back in '86 - hip-hop is not in that state of mind that it was back in '86. Times change. I change.

I had definitely stopped watching MTV by 2000.

'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at.

I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'.

I was on 'Melrose' at a time where we had to all go home and be there at the same time when the show was on, or set your VCR. But that was a big thing, and people of my generation still talk about that. They remember where they were, at what point of their lives that show came, and then talking about it the next day.

When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time', it is already out of fashion.

The heyday of video music was the mid 80's.

MTV has always been about redefining itself.

It's interesting because a lot of my 16-year-old kids' friends know me from 'Wedding Crashers,' and not so much Bond. My kids have a good laugh. I was 20 then. The look I had then was the look that a lot of their friends are assuming now. They think it's cool. What goes around comes around.

I may have destroyed world culture, but MTV wouldn't exist today if it wasn't for me.

I think, having done 'The Princess Diaries,' it was a fun experience, and it's cool to have made fans that are now into all this music. That movie is still so relevant to our culture. It's always on. It's kind of a rare, nostalgic thing. I get tweets all the time about it.

As a kid, I'd watch MTV and think how great it would be to have my own music videos on those shows. Now I turn on MTV and, along the bottom of the screen, it often reads, 'Coming next... Pixie Lott.' That's so strange that I can't even begin to make sense of it.

In my 30s, it wasn't cool to like Pauly Shore movies. It was cool to like them when they came out, then it wasn't cool.

VH1 does its little '80s retro thing once in a while, all of us in our bad hairdos and unfortunate clothes.

I love Madonna! If you want to see the Madonna I know, just go on YouTube and you'll see those early interviews before the record came out. She was giddy and wonderful and giggly and happy and so excited looking towards the future.

Pop music should be about young people.

I'll know I'm reaching the total American market when I'm asked to do a video for MTV.

I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times.

Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton, Flavor Flav, and Hulk Hogan's biohazard clan of bleached specimens provide endless hours of death-hastening diversion.

I remember, when I was a kid in the '70s and '80s, the '50s were really cool. And then the '60s were really cool. And then the '70s.