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
ADAM ANTI watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes.
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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I’ve always played live.
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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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I am quite an early riser – I usually get up between 5.30 and 6am and take the dogs out.
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I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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Prison’s a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
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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 want to do a make-up line for men.
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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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Bad things happen sometimes.
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An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head.
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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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People 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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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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