Prince Quotes

But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.'

I don't think success arrives and you're suddenly happy. It's not like that. If people think that they'll be very disappointed.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

The American dream has now morphed into an expectation. And if it isn't provided, or if it doesn't happen, then people feel cheated.

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing.

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

I think a lot of the world searches in vain for happiness in ways that will not bring them happiness.

'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win.

You'd imagine Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn't.

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.

It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!

We have never enjoyed a piece of the great American dream.

You were always told that if you worked hard, you would get somewhere. But so many people feel they have worked hard and they have nothing to show for it.

Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.

When I finally got there, to where I thought was the top, I wasn't doing what I was doing in the beginning. I was not happy.

I was naive. Before 'Larrikins,' I thought passion, hard work, and a skill set will mean that anything you want to do will get done. I don't think that anymore.

When you romanticize something so extraordinarily in the hopes that it will divert you from agony, you're destined for a letdown.