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I am not a greedy person.
My album is better than 'Sgt. Pepper.'
It wasn't necessarily my choice to disappear.
I don't want to be just the latest curiosity.
I went from one day being toasted to being roasted.
I've always been blessed, or cursed, with perception.
That's all I think my job is, to make my own contribution.
To carry a false persona is an extra burden. Who needs that?
Some small part of what the artist does is for approval of others.
We can tend to be too ambitious when we're young, and a little blind.
You have to hit people over the head to make them notice, and I did it.
Everybody wants to go to heaven but very few people are willing to die.
I learned that I can't be as indulgent as I'd like to be when I record.
I can only say this with all relative humility: I saw myself as a Beatle.
I think some people enjoy that I say things that upset or shake up people.
I do have some very strange thoughts... Still, all geniuses are mad aren't they?
I change a lot. It's not easy to size me up. There are a lot of conflicts inside.
In the first place, I was never a very outgoing, public person. That was a facade.
All artists are socialists until they see another artist with a bigger house than theirs.
Everyone has a cross to bear. Sometimes I have to take the splinters out of my shoulders.
Looks are like honey: They'll attract flies, bees, bears, but they won't necessarily keep them.
The experiences and feelings I have are starting to outweigh the words available to explain them.
When I lived in England my perception of what people thought of me was largely formed by the media.
I'm not sure a lot of us in the music business or in rock 'n' roll are given credit for irony or humor.
Children are born with pureness, and gradually become distracted with all the little pressures going on.
There's a part of me which feels content to leave songs in a vault not to be heard until after my death.
The fact that you can even make a record and leave a document that you were here, that's nothing to sneeze at.
There are no calculations in the records I make. I record as many songs as I can. Songs that I think are my best.
Everything that, by the grace of the universe, I was able to become is the direct result of everything I went through.
In Milan, I'm treated with the respect that doctors receive in America. It's wonderful living where artists are revered.
I don't want to force my vibe on anyone, but you've got to learn to love yourself, as opposed to being in love with yourself.
I have a gut instinctive feeling that I will be as massive as Madonna, as massive as Michael Jackson... Whitney Houston, sure.
I came around at a time when myself, Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna and George Michael, we were considered kind of dangerous.
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 am a holographic representation in the third dimension of what was requested by your souls that one of your favourite artists be.
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.
If you state the obvious long enough, other people will pick up on what you're talking about and examine it. And usually they'll swallow it.
The artist is inherently a romantic to some degree, and as such, I believe in a muse. But I don't try to analyze too much where it comes from.
Our society and media have lost touch with the job of the artist. The job of the artist has been subordinated to the job of the record seller.
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.
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.
Terence Trent D'Arby is the vehicle through which Sananda will let his light shine. I don't know what Sananda means and I have not allowed myself to find out.
I believe every major strength we have can be used against us as a weakness. At the same time, things that people see as weakness can be part of our strength.
Terence Trent D'Arby was dead. He watched his suffering as he died a noble death. After intense pain I meditated for a new spirit, a new will, a new identity.
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 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.
Real talent is mixing realism with bluff. Every great artist I really respect has a certain amount of bluff; sooner or later you have to be a conjurer, and conjure images.
As I meet more people who were my heroes, I see there is something about them that rings true with all I've ever read and heard about them, and that's all that really matters.
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've been privy to certain experiences which have allowed me to realize how fleeting time is, in any case, and how ultimately not important this is. 'This' being the things perhaps we trip on in life.