Top 33 Terence Trent DArby Quotes

I was aware of all the artists who make good debut records over the years, but no one hears them – and I wanted to make sure that didn’t happen in my case.

Everyone has a cross to bear. Sometimes I have to take the splinters out of my shoulders.

It’s like I’m coming to a realization that I’m not Terence Trent D’Arby. I’m the soul playing a role of this character that was written.

I know that some people view me as a bit manufactured. But I can’t be Whitney Houston: somebody who is polite and perfect and appeals to your mother and your grandfather.

We can tend to be too ambitious when we’re young, and a little blind.

In Milan, I’m treated with the respect that doctors receive in America. It’s wonderful living where artists are revered.

My album is better than ‘Sgt. Pepper.’

I’ve seen too many people who have been artists for a long time, on that cycle of record-promote-tour, and you look up and 10 years of your life is gone. I didn’t want that to happen to me.

I went from one day being toasted to being roasted.

I obviously wouldn’t say on nationwide TV that I thought America was racist, sexist, homophobic and violent if they asked me why I left. I would just say America wasn’t a culture I felt comfortable in. But anybody with a brain would understand what I’m trying to say.

Looks are like honey: They’ll attract flies, bees, bears, but they won’t necessarily keep them.

I change a lot. It’s not easy to size me up. There are a lot of conflicts inside.

I learned that I can’t be as indulgent as I’d like to be when I record.

I came around at a time when myself, Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna and George Michael, we were considered kind of dangerous.

You can’t expect a poodle to guard your house the way a Doberman pinscher does, and you can’t expect a Doberman pinscher to jump in your lap the way a poodle does. Some people are just animals of a certain nature, and they are always going to have certain impulses that motivate them.

That’s all I think my job is, to make my own contribution.

At the time of ‘Neither Fish Nor Flesh’s non-performance in the marketplace – I believe that’s the expression – every single thing hit me at once. Legal situations, financial situations, the mother of my daughter and I were splitting up, everything.

I have to follow my own vision.

I can only say this with all relative humility: I saw myself as a Beatle.

I am not a greedy person.

A lot of people wanted ‘The Hardline, Part II,’ and there was no way I was going to do that.

I seem to have been possessed by a mind of my own and I did not merely want to be a pop product, but I wanted to be an artist which was always my ambition.

The version I got of Christianity was quite confusing to me, even as a child, because there were certain things that didn’t add up.

I can stay in my house for a week straight without seeing anyone.

In some very real way, rock ‘n’ roll is like a religion to me.

My 12 years in Los Angeles were hell! But I was sent to study hell and to learn as much from it as I could because there is no other place like hell for a full and complete education.

There’s a part of me which feels content to leave songs in a vault not to be heard until after my death.

I want to be a member of the team that helps in any way possible for the evolution of people’s souls. Because too much encourages us to spend too much time with our lower nature, and we have a higher nature as well.

I’m the type of person that, when it’s my time in the spotlight, I’ll do my duty in the spotlight. When it’s not, and it’s another person’s time, I’ll go away.

I think it is safe to say, as a huge fan of music, that between 1967 and 1972 was the renaissance of rock music. That’s when all the forces combined together-the talent that was available and the freedom for the artists. The industry hadn’t become so gigantic.

I’ve always been blessed, or cursed, with perception.

I have a gut instinctive feeling that I will be as massive as Madonna, as massive as Michael Jackson… Whitney Houston, sure.

All artists are socialists until they see another artist with a bigger house than theirs.