Adam Ant Quotes

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Adam Ant

Profession : Musician

Birth : November 3, 1954

People tend to keep their distance.

Adam Ant

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.'

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I loved being in a band.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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To me, style is consistency.

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I always like to tell a story.

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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.

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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.

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I'm a rock and roll singer.

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If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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