Adam and the Ants Quotes
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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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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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I'm a rock and roll singer.
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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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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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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 love the old stuff that's why I included it. I did see them play a lot as they supported the Banshees all the time. And I was a friend of the Banshees so I used to get there early to see the Ants and while the Banshees were on I used to like to go in their dressing room and steal their booze!
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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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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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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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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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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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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 became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
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I want to do a make-up line for men.
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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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If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.
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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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My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
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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.