Prince Tells It Like It T.I. Is...

I love that Prince loves talking $hit and lives by walking to the beat of his own drum. I just hate that he waited until so late in his career before he started cussin' mf's out.

For years, we didn't know if he spoke. Remember that?

According to Prince:

''I don't have to record to eat or to get out of debt or to pay my taxes. I looked forward to the day I could do this."

'Freedom is an interesting thing. You have to work really hard to get free.''

There was a time when Prince was regular putting out records each year-releasing three new albums in both 2003 and 2004 - but he isn't planning a new record any time soon, as he believes it is not the preferred format anymore.

He added: ''We're in a singles market again. It's crazy for me to walk into that with a new album.''

Prince, 54, also remains unimpressed by the way technology has compressed music to small electronic files and onto small devices, which restrict sound quality.

He said: ''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.''