It’s good to play 100 per cent live – no tricks, no samples, no messing about.
ADAM ANTPeople 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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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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Depression is something that doesn’t just go away. It’s just… there and you deal with it. It’s like… malaria or something.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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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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People tend to keep their distance.
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I’ve never really been nervous about any concerts. I enjoy it so much.
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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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Bad things happen sometimes.
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I want to do a make-up line for men.
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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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When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green.
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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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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I’ve always played live.
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When I was sectioned for six months, that was one of the worst experiences of my life, not being able to go out and have freedom. Having experienced it, it’s almost inexplicably awful.
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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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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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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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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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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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I’m blind without my glasses.
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An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head.
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I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.
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