I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
ADAM ANTPrison’s a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
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Mile high club, it’s got its ups and downs.
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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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The brain isn’t like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.
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An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head.
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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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Bad things happen sometimes.
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To me, style is consistency.
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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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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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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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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 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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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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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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