Adam Ant quotes:

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

Creative people are more prone to depression.

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.

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

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

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

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.'

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 loved being in a band.

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

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

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

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.

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

I'm a rock and roll singer.

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

Bad things happen sometimes.

An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head.

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

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.

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.

I've never really been nervous about any concerts. I enjoy it so much. All that matters is getting the songs played well, trying to get them to sound as close to the record live, which isn't easy, because my music is quite complicated to play.

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.

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.

People tend to keep their distance.

There is always room at the top, don't let them tell you there is not.

To me, style is consistency.

I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes.

If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.

Mile high club, it's got its ups and downs.

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

When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green.

I'm blind without my glasses.

It makes me sad, sad inside, to see a warrior without his pride.

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

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

I always like to tell a story.

I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?