I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
ADAM ANTAll 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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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’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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I’m blind without my glasses.
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To me, style is consistency.
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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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The brain isn’t like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
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Bad things happen sometimes.
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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 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 always like to tell a story.
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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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I am quite an early riser – I usually get up between 5.30 and 6am and take the dogs out.
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Prison’s a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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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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People tend to keep their distance.
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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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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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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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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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I want to do a make-up line for men.
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I’m a punk rocker. I don’t do Christian.
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Maybe it won’t be cured, but you’ve got to take the medication you’re prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
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Mile high club, it’s got its ups and downs.
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