Quotes By Adam Ant

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.

To me, style is consistency.

Creative people are more prone to depression.

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.

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

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

Bad things happen sometimes.

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

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

My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.

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.

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

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

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.

I'm blind without my glasses.

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

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

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'm a rock and roll singer.

If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.

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 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.

I always like to tell a story.

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

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.

I loved being in a band.

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.'