I don't want to force my vibe on anyone, but you've got to learn to love yourself, as opposed to being in love with yourself.
I have to follow my own vision.
The experiences and feelings I have are starting to outweigh the words available to explain them.
Everything that, by the grace of the universe, I was able to become is the direct result of everything I went through.
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.
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.
In some very real way, rock 'n' roll is like a religion to me.
I came around at a time when myself, Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna and George Michael, we were considered kind of dangerous.
I don't want to be just the latest curiosity.
Everybody wants to go to heaven but very few people are willing to die.
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.'
We can tend to be too ambitious when we're young, and a little blind.
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.
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 don't have to worry about what the average record company person thinks because I am the record company person.
One thing about Italians is you can't let them in your head. They're inquisitive. The English and Germans are a dog tribe; the Italians are cats. They're very helpful, but it's in their own rhythm, their own way, and it can drive you crazy.
All artists are socialists until they see another artist with a bigger house than theirs.
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.
