A biography for Terence Trent D'Arbyhasn’t been written yet.
“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 always say that at some times you can lose perspective.”
“I think some people enjoy that I say things that upset or shake up people.”
“I don't think there is anyone I've ever met who has been more passionate about music than me, but rock 'n' roll has never been about just music. It is music, attitude, personality, persona, myth, legend.”
“There are no calculations in the records I make. I record as many songs as I can. Songs that I think are my best.”
“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.”
“Everybody wants to go to heaven but very few people are willing to die.”
“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.”
“I've always been blessed, or cursed, with perception.”
“So for my own survival and my growth, as a soul, as an artist and as an emotional being, it was best that I assume an identity I didn't have to fight anyone over or that I have to constantly engage in constant tug of wars and just reinvent myself.”
“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.”