Love Quote by Teena Marie

There is bravado here, but it isnt the glossy kind meant for a press kit. Teena Marie is talking like an artist who has already seen the industry try to turn emotion into inventory and still refuses to outsource her inner life. "Enough love to last me a lifetime" reads less as romantic sentiment than as a hard-won stockpile: love as fuel, love as protection, love as proof that the world hasnt hollowed her out. The quick pivot to gratitude - "Thank God" - frames imagination and passion as something sacred and precarious, not a personality trait you can simply will into existence.

The subtext is defiant. She is insisting on the one form of control musicians actually get to keep: the ability to care. In an ecosystem where relevance is measured by charts and reinvention, she names the quieter metric that matters to working artists: whether the work still feels alive from the inside. "I'll never lose my imagination" is a vow against cynicism, the occupational hazard of longevity.

Context sharpens the stakes. Marie built a career that crossed genre and racial boundaries in ways the business loved to profit from and sometimes policed. To say she is "still passionate" carries the weight of having been questioned, categorized, and marketed - and still showing up with appetite. The repetition of "passion" is the point: not nostalgia, not legacy talk, but a declaration that the engine is running, and she is driving.