Prince Quotes

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

Sometimes being an actor is being a song in someone else's mixtape, so I really understand why more and more actors are making films of their own.

I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.

I want all of my films to belong to me.

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

One of the worst things that can happen to an artist is to perceive himself as the owner of his art, and art as his tool. A product of the marketplace sensibility, this attitude barely differs on a psychological plane from the patron's view of the artist as a paid employee.

Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.

As a filmmaker, one tends to want to evolve evermore towards a place of independence.

Honestly, I never felt like I wasn't an artist on my own. I always felt like the music I made was mine, whether it was part of a collaboration with people.

I am comfortable doing independent music; it gives me more freedom as an artiste.

My music has always been my solo project.

I love to work. It's the idea of having someone else tell you how to make your film or how to sell it - that's the part I can't really deal with. I would rather do 1,000 things that are work than deal with one thing that's a political problem.

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.

Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.

I'm really lucky because I found myself in a position where I can do whatever I want to do. I can make records, produce records, make movies, or I can do nothing. I'm not a slave to the dollar.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

The freedom of every artist is essential.

The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.

The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.

I don't work to any commissions. I do what I want to do.