Nicolas Cage is not down to get down anymore — at least for now.

The realization came after a video of the star belting Prince’s “Purple Rain” at a karaoke bar hit the tabloids earlier this year. Since then, Nicolas decided it’s probably best to hang up his partying hat.

“You go to a karaoke bar with a male friend in the neighborhood, the bar says ‘no videotaping’ and suddenly, there’s two different videos of you doing karaoke,” he said to the New York Times magazine. “Who did that? Who exposed the videotape? Who sold it?”

He added that the night was “more like a primal-scream therapy” session and that he didn’t exactly plan for it to be seen.

“It was a holiday weekend, and I didn’t want to go anywhere, but my friend who was with me said: ‘You can’t sit here in your apartment. You’ve got to go out.’ So I went to the one place in my neighborhood that I knew had no video recording, just to have some fun, and that became everybody’s business,” he said.

He added: “At this point in my life … I heavily prefer to not go out. I’d rather just stay at home,” he said. “I don’t think I can decompress ever again, even at a karaoke bar. It’s too vulnerable. I’m not trying to complain. It’s a fact of life that I have to accept. I’d much rather let my work and not my personal life speak for me.”