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.
ADAM ANTI want to do a make-up line for men.
More Adam Ant Quotes
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I loved being in a band.
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To me, style is consistency.
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I could be religious, if they sang the hymns to disco.
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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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Bad things happen sometimes.
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If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.
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I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
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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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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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Prison’s a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
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I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.
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I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
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Let’s just say that back in the old days, sex was available every two feet. But I never made love to anybody that did not want me to.
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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 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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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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When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green.
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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 didn’t lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?
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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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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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The touring was crazy, it was a lot of work. But I enjoyed it.
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An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head.
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I want to do a make-up line for men.
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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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