Quotes from Adam Ant


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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.


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.


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


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


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.


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


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


People tend to keep their distance.


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.


Bad things happen sometimes.


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 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.


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


If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.


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


To me, style is consistency.


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.


I'm blind without my glasses.


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


Achievement results from work realizing ambition.