Prince Quotes

My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am.

Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.

If people see me having dinner with a beautiful woman, they immediately believe that I'm having a love affair with her. Of course that's rubbish. I'm not a playboy!

What happens is I speak to people outside of my circle of friends and they have already formed an opinion of me based on the things that people have written. That is the effect of journalism on my life, and sometimes it isn't very pleasant.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

My whole life, people have been like, 'I don't know if you're playing or serious.'

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

All the people know Tomba, but not the real Alberto.

Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.

English people have seen me get through scandals.

I've never been a model; that's a misconception about me, and I don't know where it came from.

Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.

I never quite know if what I do will be understood.

When you're as famous as I am, stories take on a life of their own.

There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.

People will have their guesses and opinions on my character, but anyone that's actually sat down and talked to me knows that I don't have any character issues, any off-the-field issues.

I learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I'm dating them.

I don't want people paying too much attention about what I am outside of football, what I'm doing, and asking: 'Who is N'Golo?'

I don't mind if what they write about me has some truth in it. Pure imagination makes me feel sad about the whole thing.

We don't read a lot of what people say about us.

I don't want people talking about me, for good or bad.