Sananda Maitreya Quotes

United States, Singer
March 15, 1962

Sananda Francesco Maitreya, better known by his former stage name Terence Trent D'Arby, is an American singer and songwriter who came to fame with his debut studio album, Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby, released in July 1987, which included the singles "If You Let Me Stay", "Wishing Well", "Dance Little Sister" and "Sign Your Name".

Also known as Songwriter

I've always been blessed or cursed with perception.

Sananda Maitreya
Everything has happened through some kind of luck, I have heard everything I have ever made, why should my life be different from Beethoven's, Miles Davis' or Jimi Hendrix's, or anyone else's I look up to? People will say: "why did you do this, why did you do that?"

Sananda Maitreya
- Life
- Luck
- Happened

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

Sananda Maitreya
- Thoughts
- Mad
- Geniuses
Listen, I could not possibly think of a form of mind control that it would take to convince me for any reason to drop what I do now to go and fight for someone's fight for geopolitical repositioning of energy resources...you know?

Sananda Maitreya
- Mind
- Control
- Fight
I look at writing and recording like going to the toilet.

Sananda Maitreya
- Writing
- Recording
- Toilet
I had a job writing in a weekly newspaper but after a while that got boring because I realized the people I was interviewing were far less interesting than me and I didn't see why I should be talking to them.

Sananda Maitreya
I think I'm a GENIUS. Point F#*king blank.

Sananda Maitreya
- Think
- Genius
- Point
I admit I'm arrogant but not that arrogant - my arrogance is cool.

Sananda Maitreya
- Cool
- Admit
- Arrogant

I am a true soul genius and, unlike certain other singers, 100 per cent man.

Sananda Maitreya
- Soul
- Genius
- Singers
I may say a lot of strange and incomprehensible things as far as other people are concerned, but that is the way of all brilliance.

Sananda Maitreya
- People
- Things
- Strange