A biography for Terence Trent D'Arbyhasn’t been written yet.
“I do have some very strange thoughts... Still, all geniuses are mad aren't they?”
“I have a gut instinctive feeling that I will be as massive as Madonna, as massive as Michael Jackson... Whitney Houston, sure.”
“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.”
“Some small part of what the artist does is for approval of others.”
“A lot of people wanted 'The Hardline, Part II,' and there was no way I was going to do that.”
“We can tend to be too ambitious when we're young, and a little blind.”
“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.”
“In the first place, I was never a very outgoing, public person. That was a facade.”
“I'm a genius.”
“I don't do many interviews.”
“Everything that, by the grace of the universe, I was able to become is the direct result of everything I went through.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I change a lot. It's not easy to size me up. There are a lot of conflicts inside.”
“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.”
“My album is better than 'Sgt. Pepper.'”
“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.”
“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.”
“Looks are like honey: They'll attract flies, bees, bears, but they won't necessarily keep them.”
“I can stay in my house for a week straight without seeing anyone.”