Adam Ant Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Adam Ant:
My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
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Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.
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I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
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I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
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I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
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It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.
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I'm blind without my glasses.
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I am quite an early riser - I usually get up between 5.30 and 6am and take the dogs out.
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I loved being in a band.
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It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.
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To me, style is consistency.
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I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.
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The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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I think what's going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it.
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I want to do a make-up line for men.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I always like to tell a story.
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I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.
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Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
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People tend to keep their distance.
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I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.
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Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.
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I'm a rock and roll singer.
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If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.
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Bad things happen sometimes.
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The touring was crazy, it was a lot of work. But I enjoyed it.
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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.
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I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'
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Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
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I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.
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