I’ve learned to really just say no. If I don’t want to do something, I won’t do it. There’s nothing that can make me do anything.
ADAM ANTI 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.
More Adam Ant Quotes
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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 have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
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I always like to tell a story.
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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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To me, style is consistency.
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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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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I’ve always played live.
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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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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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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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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 watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes.
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Cause people lose it, they lose it – they say: ‘I like that, and that’s not this.’
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I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
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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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When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green.
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All that matters is getting the songs played well, trying to get them to sound as close to the record live, which isn’t easy, because my music is quite complicated to play.
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I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman’s face.
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I could be religious, if they sang the hymns to disco.
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Bad things happen sometimes.
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There is always room at the top, don’t let them tell you there is not.
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I didn’t lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?
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An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head.
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I loved being in a band.
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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 want to do a make-up line for men.
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