A biography for Terence Trent D'Arbyhasn’t been written yet.
“I am a holographic representation in the third dimension of what was requested by your souls that one of your favourite artists be.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I'm not sure a lot of us in the music business or in rock 'n' roll are given credit for irony or humor.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I don't have to worry about what the average record company person thinks because I am the record company person.”
“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.”
“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 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 can only say this with all relative humility: I saw myself as a Beatle.”
“When I lived in England my perception of what people thought of me was largely formed by the media.”
“It wasn't necessarily my choice to disappear.”
“The experiences and feelings I have are starting to outweigh the words available to explain them.”
“I just happened to be in Paris during one of the fashion weeks and was out one night at a table with a few supermodels. I was sitting next to Michael Hutchence of INXS and at one point I turned to him and said, 'I feel like the meat in a supermodel sandwich.'”
“The system is very well regulated in L.A. It's designed to disconnect you from whatever your idea of yourself is. If you're among devils and they realise you're not a devil like they are, there's gonna be some great discomfort.”
“All artists are socialists until they see another artist with a bigger house than theirs.”
“I went from one day being toasted to being roasted.”
“To carry a false persona is an extra burden. Who needs that?”