Prince will "hold off on recording" until piracy is undercontrol

Tue, 28 Jun 2011

In a recent interview with the Guardian Newspaper, Prince expresses his strong feelings against digital music and how he will not record a new record until more boundaries are set in place.

"I personally can't stand digital music," he tells the newspaper. "You're getting sound in bits. It affects a different place in your brain. When you play it back, you can't feel anything. We're analogue people, not digital."

He's never kept his distate for the digital age a secret, blaming websites such as YouTube where copyrighted content is often used without the artist's permission, but it's for lack of regulation and control that he will not record any new music.

"The industry changed," he explains. "We made money online before piracy was real crazy. Nobody's making money now except phone companies, Apple and Google. I'm supposed to go to the White House to talk about copyright protection. It's like the gold rush out there. Or a carjacking. There's no boundaries. I've been in meetings and they'll tell you, 'Prince, you don't understand, it's dog-eat-dog out there.' So I'll just hold off on recording."

During the interview he also revealed that the annual rumours of him playing Glastonbury were false, explaining that they use his name to sell papers angrily glowering that, "It's Illegal. I've never spoken to anyone about doing that concert, ever."

Read the full interview with the Guardian here.