Terence Trent D'Arby Quotes

To me, rock and roll is like an ethos or a state of mind.

I mean, like, rock n' roll was always about spirit and fun.

I am an artsy girl. It's no secret that I am artsy, you know.

Rock n' roll is not just a fashion statement; it is the attitude, and it has a political posturing as well.

Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt.

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

What would rock and roll be without ambition, craziness, danger, and fun?

Let's be perfectly honest. I love Rock to death. We're all different people, but Rock's a showman.

I'm definitely more of a rockstar than anything.

R&B is everywhere, and I am who I am.

Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it.

I am a D.J., I am what I play.

That's the great thing about rock n' roll: the myth is ultimately more important than the reality. And that's what you learn - you just learn to go with the mythology.

Rock and roll is my religion.

I've embraced rock 'n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock 'n' roll. But I am also engaged in all of these things separately.

Music is in my DNA!

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

I dance. I don't really do anything else.

Rock n' roll! It's the music of puberty.

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

You ready? I have gold teeth, I have braids, I'm wearing Rick Owens moon boots, I have rips in my denim, a biker vest, I love artsy girls, my favourite artists are Jimi Hendrix and John Lennon. I'm obsessed with being different.

You see, rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force. It's something very essential.

I was very aware of performers who have a persona, whether it's Siouxsie Sioux or Patti Smith or Lydia Lunch, and I'm just this middle-class girl coming from a more conventional upbringing, this California person. But in a way I felt like it's important to represent the normal.

It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.