Terence Trent D'Arby

My 12 years in Los Angeles were hell! But I was sent to study hell and to learn as much from it…

— Terence Trent D'Arby

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…

— Terence Trent D'Arby

I went from one day being toasted to being roasted.

— Terence Trent D'Arby

I was aware of all the artists who make good debut records over the years, but no one hears them - and…

— Terence Trent D'Arby

I seem to have been possessed by a mind of my own and I did not merely want to be a pop…

— Terence Trent D'Arby

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

— Terence Trent D'Arby

Some small part of what the artist does is for approval of others.

— Terence Trent D'Arby

Songs come to me and I hear them. At least in part, they are very complete; I hear the whole chorus, including…

— Terence Trent D'Arby

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

— Terence Trent D'Arby

I don't do many interviews.

— Terence Trent D'Arby

To carry a false persona is an extra burden. Who needs that?

— Terence Trent D'Arby

I have to follow my own vision.

— Terence Trent D'Arby

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

— Terence Trent D'Arby

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

— Terence Trent D'Arby

I am a holographic representation in the third dimension of what was requested by your souls that one of your favourite artists…

— Terence Trent D'Arby

I think it is safe to say, as a huge fan of music, that between 1967 and 1972 was the renaissance of…

— Terence Trent D'Arby

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

— Terence Trent D'Arby

When I lived in England my perception of what people thought of me was largely formed by the media.

— Terence Trent D'Arby

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

— Terence Trent D'Arby

You can't expect a poodle to guard your house the way a Doberman pinscher does, and you can't expect a Doberman pinscher…

— Terence Trent D'Arby

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

— Terence Trent D'Arby

At the time of 'Neither Fish Nor Flesh's non-performance in the marketplace - I believe that's the expression - every single thing…

— Terence Trent D'Arby

I know that some people view me as a bit manufactured. But I can't be Whitney Houston: somebody who is polite and…

— Terence Trent D'Arby

Children are born with pureness, and gradually become distracted with all the little pressures going on.

— Terence Trent D'Arby

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

— Terence Trent D'Arby