Quotes By Adam Ant

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

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

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

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.

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

I'm blind without my glasses.

My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.

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

I'm a rock and roll singer.

If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.

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.

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

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

I always like to tell a story.

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

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

I loved being in a band.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

People tend to keep their distance.

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

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.

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

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.