Terence Trent D'Arby Quotes

I just make the movies I want to see. I've always been that way.

I guess I created LeRoy Neiman. Nobody else told me how to do it. Well, I'm a believer in the theory that the artist is as important as his work.

When I get to do whatever I want, I'm perfectly happy. I've found that the best scenario is that I just do what I do, and if somebody wants to be part of it, they should work as a conduit for what vision I have. They should help me complete the universe.

An artist has to be selfish; otherwise, he's not true to his own art.

I can't run my career based on someone else's ideology.

I'm now able to show who I am as an artist.

I am like a common man who is dictated by what I like and I sometimes feel that if something good, I should produce it.

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

I only make movies that are interesting to me.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

Whatever I do, I do it because I want to do it and because it's completely, 100% me.

I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else.

You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it.

I only make movies I want to go see.