Prince Quotes

I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years with Elektra, and then just took all the ones I am mad about.

Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.

When I did 'Ephorize,' I didn't know that later on I'd be releasing another album. It just came.

I thought, I'm in my late 50s now, am I ever gonna get the chance to do another album again?

One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.

I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.

I have just enough people paying attention that I have the freedom to be in charge. And I have a great record company - Nonesuch understands what I'm about.

When we came off the tour for the last album, we started on this one. We've just been chipping away at it. We're not in that much of a hurry, because when we release a Blur album, that's a three year promotion and touring cycle.

Most of the time I like to start an album abroad, not at home, just to avoid the pressure, to not wake up and think, 'OK, it's the first of recording this album.' I like to avoid that.

A lot of big whoever producers, they come with a song and they say, 'Sing this,' and I'm not that girl.

I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

Every time I do an album, I say, 'That's the last one.'

Albums take a lot out of you.

U2 albums never get finished. They just get released.

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

So that's what's going on right now, and I'm looking to put out an album within the next six months.

When we finished the tour we had been writing together for a year. We moved forward from there and have just now finished our record. We're having a new record out in the Spring.

A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.

I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another album' pattern. As an artist, you should keep creating as much as you possibly can.

Obviously, with your first album, you want to make sure you are really happy with it.

As a producer, you're pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.

We'll probably be working on another album in the next few months here.

All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.

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.