I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.

He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

The way people look at me these days - that's the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who've attained a certain position are human.

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

Black people still call me Prince. Sometimes I ask them, "Why do you call me Prince?" And people say, "Because you are a prince to us." Usually when they say that, you know my heart goes out and I have to say, "I don't mind your calling me that."