Adam Ant Quotes

My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. A day doesn't go by where I don't sit and cry, listening to the stories. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh.

We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as if we don't go through those real feeling and it isn't as if I don't cry three or four times a night. I usually do.

When you cry, you don't look very attractive; you look snotty and blotchy. People seem to manage to cry quite prettily these days, and to me, that smacks of not being very genuine.

You can cry, ain't no shame in it.

I feel like I can't write something that has a real emotion in it if I can't connect to that emotion.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Everyone cries sometimes, Tory. There are some pains that run too deep for even the strongest to take without breaking. I don’t think any less of you for it. (Acheron)

How can you write if you can't cry?

I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry.

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.

What's the point of a song if you can't be honest?

I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.

I realized that I started writing songs to make people feel how I felt, rather than just making them feel something. That's not the way I should do things.

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

When you hear my music and you feel the emotion, it's real. When you see me in a film and you see a tear, it's real.

I used to stand in front of the mic and cry.

The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.'

I cry every chance I get.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

I can't say that I fully relate to things that I play. Sometimes it's nice to spend half the day crying; then you don't have to do it in real life.

My work has always been about authentic feeling, and I think we live in a time where we need that.

Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then torn them up.

I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It's healthy, I think.