Quotes

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

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

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

To me, style is consistency.

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

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 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.'

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

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.

Bad things happen sometimes.

I'm a rock and roll singer.

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

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

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

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.

People tend to keep their distance.

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

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.

I loved being in a band.

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

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

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

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

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.