I have to follow my own vision.

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

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 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.

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 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.

You have to hit people over the head to make them notice, and I did it.

I change a lot. It's not easy to size me up. There are a lot of conflicts inside.

I do have some very strange thoughts... Still, all geniuses are mad aren't they?

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

I learned that I can't be as indulgent as I'd like to be when I record.

In the first place, I was never a very outgoing, public person. That was a facade.

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.

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.

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

I'm a genius.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

It wasn't necessarily my choice to disappear.

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 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.

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

My album is better than 'Sgt. Pepper.'

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.