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

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Adam Ant
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 3
Actor
Composer
Designer
Film Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Stage Actor
Stuart Leslie Goddard
Suffered
Depression
Illness
Life

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.
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I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
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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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I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.
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Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
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