I loved being in a band.

I'm a rock and roll singer.

To me, style is consistency.

Bad things happen sometimes.

I'm blind without my glasses.

I always like to tell a story.

People tend to keep their distance.

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

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

If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.

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

Creative people are more prone to depression.

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

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

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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