24 Quotes by Adam Ant
Adam Ant is a British musician and actor who rose to fame in the late 1970s and early 1980s as the lead singer of the new wave band Adam and the Ants. Known for his flamboyant style and catchy pop songs, Ant became a cultural icon of the era, influencing fashion and music alike. After the breakup of the band in the mid-1980s, Ant pursued a successful solo career and also acted in film and television. He has continued to perform and record music, and his influence can still be felt in the pop and rock scenes today. (Bio)
Adam Ant Quotes
If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it. (Meaning)
I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.
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.
When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green.
I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?
I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
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.
Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.
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.
The touring was crazy, it was a lot of work. But I enjoyed it.
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.
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 have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.
Mile high club, it's got its ups and downs.
Bad things happen sometimes.
I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.
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.
I want to do a make-up line for men.
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.
It makes me sad, sad inside, to see a warrior without his pride.
Achievement results from work realizing ambition. (Meaning)
― Adam Ant Quotes
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