Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
ADAM ANTI watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes.
More Adam Ant Quotes
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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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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 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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There is always room at the top, don’t let them tell you there is not.
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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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To me, style is consistency.
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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 really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there’s a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.
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Bad things happen sometimes.
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People tend to keep their distance.
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I loved being in a band.
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I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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I think what’s going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it.
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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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I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman’s face.
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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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If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.
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I always like to tell a story.
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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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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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Mile high club, it’s got its ups and downs.
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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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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I’ve always played live.
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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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It’s good to play 100 per cent live – no tricks, no samples, no messing about.
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