Quotes from Adam Ant

Bad things happen sometimes.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

I'm a rock and roll singer.

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.

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.

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

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'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.

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.

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

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

If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.

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

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.

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

I always like to tell a story.

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.