Top 35 Adam Ant Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

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2. “Bad things happen sometimes.”

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3. “To me, style is consistency.”

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4. “Achievement results from work realizing ambition.”

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

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6. “There is always room at the top, don’t let them tell you there is not.”

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

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8. “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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9. “The brain isn’t like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.”

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10. “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.”

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

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12. “Prison’s a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.”

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13. “If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.”

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14. “I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.”

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

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16. “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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17. “I’m a punk rocker. I don’t do Christian.”

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

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

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

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21. “Ridicule is nothing to be scared of.”

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22. “Mile high club, it’s got its ups and downs.”

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

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24. “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.”

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25. “I am quite an early riser – I usually get up between 5.30 and 6am and take the dogs out.”

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

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27. “I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman’s face.”

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28. “I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.”

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29. “People tend to keep their distance.”

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30. “I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.”

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31. “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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32. “It’s good to play 100 per cent live – no tricks, no samples, no messing about.”

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33. “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.”

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34. “I always like to tell a story.”

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

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36. “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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37. “I loved being in a band.”

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

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