Adam Ant Quotes
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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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I'm a rock and roll singer.
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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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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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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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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, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'
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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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Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. 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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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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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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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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I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes.
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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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Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head.
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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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My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
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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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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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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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The touring was crazy, it was a lot of work. But I enjoyed it.