Terence Trent D'Arby Quotes

You don't need a record company to turn you into anything.

I've always been independent with my music. I've always run my own music label.

I always thought that if record companies didn't understand me, fine - I'd go and do it by myself.

I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.

Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting.

Starting my own label was more out of necessity. I'm not going to sit around and wait for labels to come screaming.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

I made this record without a record label.

I never solicited a major label and I certainly wouldn't now.

I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.

It's been awesome going indie. I don't need to be on a major label. I love not having to walk into a specific radio person's office to try to convince someone to play my songs. At the end of the day, it's more work, but I've discovered that I like to get my hands dirty.

I wanted to go back to writing for myself and my fans. I built my own recording studio, started my own label, and decided to use the Internet to sell my records.

Finally I'd found this way where I didn't need a record label; I didn't need to wait for some phone call to tell me, 'Go and do it'. It's like, I'm going to get up with a bag of CDs and an amp and my guitar and make it happen for myself. That was such a liberating feeling, and I think it was the start of everything.

Doing stuff on my own terms and making a record without being signed to a label - I credit that all to my commercial work.

I've written all of my songs, I directed all my videos. Every part of what I've done for music, from the visuals to the business, I did it. And I'm really proud of that.

The business has changed so much that they're able - we're able these days in the music industry to be able to control our own destiny.

When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label.

I can do whatever I want, because my career is a certain thing.

Suddenly I could control every aspect of publishing, and it was incredibly empowering! I didn't have to sit by the phone any longer waiting for things to happen because I was the one making them happen. That's why I decided to start Amber House Books.

I started my own record label.

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I don't have a record deal, no one has any expectations, I'm in a position of freedom. I don't need anyone's approval.

I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records.