Adam Ant Quotes

I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.

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.

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.

I loved being in a band.

People tend to keep their distance.

I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.

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.

Creative people are more prone to depression.

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.

Mile high club, it's got its ups and downs.

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.

The touring was crazy, it was a lot of work. But I enjoyed it.

I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.

If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.

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.

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.

Bad things happen sometimes.

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.

To me, style is consistency.

It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.

There is always room at the top, don't let them tell you there is not.

I want to do a make-up line for men.

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.

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.

I always like to tell a story.

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.'

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.

An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head.

I've never really been nervous about any concerts. I enjoy it so much. 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.

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green.

I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes.

I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.

I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?

I'm blind without my glasses.

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.

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.

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.

Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.

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.

Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.

I am quite an early riser - I usually get up between 5.30 and 6am and take the dogs out.

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.

It makes me sad, sad inside, to see a warrior without his pride.