Quotes About Sobriety

There isn't just one way to get healthy and sober and to stop using.

I really enjoyed playing drums on 'Born Again.' It was a good feeling about being alive. There was a good energy there about being sober.

When I promise I'll do something, I do it. At least since I got sober.

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

Three of my heroes that have gotten clean and sober that I got to ask for advice were Alice Cooper, Nikki Sixx and Zakk Wylde.

I couldn't have gotten sober without rehab because I needed the science.

I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. She finally came to her senses and divorced me.

The first thought that I had about really trying to get sober was, 'Man, I could do a lot of good in the world. I can lead by example and just be this heroic recovery guy.' And that's just a bad reason to get sober. You can't get sober for anybody's benefit, let alone the world at large. You really got to do it for yourself.

When I was in the rock band, I got to do whatever I wanted. I had people paying my bills, and I didn't have time to grow up. When I got sober and left Korn, it was like, 'OK, now I can mature.'

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

I prepared for the part by drinking, but I was sober when I was performing.

I think a lot of people are scared, and I know I was scared to get sober, at least using this as an excuse; 'I don't want to be one of those sober people.' And I don't think you have to be. I think you can be one of those people who happens to be sober.

When I got sober, I really felt like there was something that was missing from my life, Buddhism is something that I practice.

I have this rule now that I keep people around me who I enjoy being with when I'm sober.

I will always remember the first show I did clean and sober... It was in New Mexico, in Albuquerque. I literally felt elevated, as everything was coming with such clarity.

When I first got sober, I hadn't read anything for six or seven years. I didn't have even that much focus.

We're sober now, and we all have families and obligations of being senior citizens. Oh, that's hard to say. We have grown-up responsibilities. We used to all live in the same car.

At the beginning of me getting out of rehab and thinking about going back to work, I was scared because I didn't know if I could do this clean and sober.

I found my feet in my 40s: got divorced at 40, two years of drinking, and then, at 42, I became sober. My 30s were the most boring phase.

Girls like me more sober.

I think sober is the new black. That's the cool thing now. I'm trying to make it the cool thing.