Adam Ant Quotes

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.

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

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.

There is always room at the top, don't let them tell you there is 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 loved being in a band.

To me, style is consistency.

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

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.

If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I could be religious, if they sang the hymns to disco.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Ridicule is nothing to be scared of.