When my income exceeds my outgo, my upkeep will be downright easy.

Genius does what it must talent does what it can.

I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas.

Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?

I'm not someone who shies away from darkness being funny.

Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people - because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it - I don't care how good you are.

He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face. We look at each other. I have no rose to toss, he has no lute. But it's the same kind of hunger.

That's the beauty of the future. We get to change it.

There is no real wealth but the labour of man.

Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'