I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
ADAM ANTSince the decline of record companies and music sales, I’ve always played live.
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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’m blind without my glasses.
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I’ve never really been nervous about any concerts. I enjoy it so much.
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The touring was crazy, it was a lot of work. But I enjoyed it.
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I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.
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People tend to keep their distance.
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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 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
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I’m a punk rocker. I don’t do Christian.
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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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To me, style is consistency.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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Bad things happen sometimes.
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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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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 loved being in a band.
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I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.
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Mile high club, it’s got its ups and downs.
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I could be religious, if they sang the hymns to disco.
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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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Prison’s a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
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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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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I’ve always played live.
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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 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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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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