Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
ADAM ANTI 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
More Adam Ant Quotes
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I’m blind without my glasses.
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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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There is always room at the top, don’t let them tell you there is not.
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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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When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green.
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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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To me, style is consistency.
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Bad things happen sometimes.
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Prison’s a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
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The touring was crazy, it was a lot of work. But I enjoyed it.
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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 loved being in a band.
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People tend to keep their distance.
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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 became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
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I could be religious, if they sang the hymns to disco.
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Mile high club, it’s got its ups and downs.
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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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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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It makes me sad, sad inside, to see a warrior without his pride.
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I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.
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I always like to tell a story.
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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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It’s good to play 100 per cent live – no tricks, no samples, no messing about.
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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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