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" 'When Doves Cry' came out - it sounded like nothing that was on the radio. 'Let's Go Crazy' was number one on R&B stations, and there's nothing that's been like that on radio since. "

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" I don't know who was the one that came up with the notion that you have to play the same songs every concert. "

" It's fun being in Islamic countries, to know there's only one religion. There's order. You wear a burqa. There's no choice. People are happy with that. "

" Prophecy is what we all have to go by now. "

" YouTube is the hippest network, and they abuse copyright right and left. "

" I used to have seizures when I was young. My mother and father didn't know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had. "

" The music, for me, doesn't come on a schedule. I don't know when it's going to come, and when it does, I want it out. "

" I like arguments. "

" Nobody sues their fans. "

" You don't have to watch 'Gossip Girl' to have an attitude. "

" Like books and black lives, albums still matter. "

" Young people have decided they like to listen to music in a certain way, through ear buds, and that's fine with me as long as it doesn't bother them that they're not hearing 90 percent of the music that way. "

" I'm thankful enough or blessed enough to be able to say that Miles Davis was a friend when he was alive, and he was a wonderful mentor and really, really funny, you know. "

" I think you'll always be able to do what your ear tells you. "

" Music is real. It affects people; it's real. "

" There are people who are unhappy with everything. "

" Everyone has a rock bottom. "

" Each audience is different. "

" You ever get that feeling that you just have too many hits? "

" I like to open people's eyes. "

" 'Billboard' needs to tell the truth, shake things up. "

" People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know? "

" I'm not entangled in a bunch of lawsuits and a web that I can't get out of. I can hold my head up... a happily married man who has his head in order. There isn't a bunch of scandal in my life. "

" 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. "

" I really believe in finding new ways to distribute my music. "

" Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on. "

" All you see on television are debased images. "