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.
ADAM ANTAll 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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It’s good to play 100 per cent live – no tricks, no samples, no messing about.
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Prison’s a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
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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 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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There is always room at the top, don’t let them tell you there is not.
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I’m a punk rocker. I don’t do Christian.
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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’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.
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I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.
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To me, style is consistency.
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An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head.
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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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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I’ve always played live.
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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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