Quotes About Consumption

I still drink a couple of Red Bulls every day.

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

People will burn through a show in two or three days, and then you're left feeling empty for 51 weeks.

Records aren't selling anymore; people are burning music.

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.

There's two kinds of rock n' roll casualty: the one that has huge success and adoration, and then suddenly it stops. Or there's when you're in a band: it is all-consuming, so then you have the dream of that, and then the dream's taken away from you even before it happens.

I try to not eat as much sugar, but it's so hard in our American diet to do that... It's hard to completely avoid.

In the U.S., the incidence of diabetes has increased proportionately with the per capita consumption of sugar.

Every man, woman and child consumes, on average, 43 teaspoons of sugar a day. In 13 days, that adds up to a five-pound bag of sugar.

I'm a sugar addict.

If there's one thing that we need to avoid, all of us - young, old - it's processed, refined sugar. There's nothing good about it.

The production and consumption of glucose, and hence, the blood sugar level, are controlled by a functional endocrine equilibrium.

There is sugar in everything. It doesn't matter what you eat in life, there is sugar in it.

Sugar is like a drug. If I have one bite, I need to eat it all. I can eat an entire panettone in one sitting.

People in America are addicted to sugar and to fat and to salt.

The optimum amount of sugar in a product became known as the 'bliss point.' Food inventors and scientists spend a huge amount of time formulating the perfect amount of sugar that will send us over the moon and send products flying off the shelves.

We have too many poisons in our diets now, like sugar and caffeine.

You can't simply slash the sugar in food; otherwise, people simply won't accept it.

Taking in too much added sugar from highly marketed sugary foods and drinks displaces healthier foods in the diet.

It's one thing to have ice cream once in a while with your family, and quite another to eat foods on a regular basis that you don't even know are full of sugar.

There's health risks in anything, even if you're just drinking soda or drinking lemonade! If you drink too much lemonade you drink too much sugar and you could get diabetes.

Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

We're not going to persuade people in the developing world to go without, but neither can we afford a planet on which everyone lives like an American. Billions more people living in suburbs and driving SUVs to shopping malls is a recipe for planetary suicide. We can't even afford to continue that way of life ourselves.

Drew is a shopaholic. He must have 400 suits and 180 pairs of shoes. I have three pairs of jeans, and that's it. I shop in his closet and take anything I want.