Quotes About Recovery

Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.

I didn't make it a priority, and as a result my knee didn't heal to the extent it should have.

Everything in Haiti right now is a priority.

Prison killed me. It destroyed me.

If it wasn't for prison, I was in a bad way.

I'm almost positive I have some type of PTSD. Almost a decade of my life was consumed by the prison system.

My worst memory is living through the 1989 riot in Huntingdon Prison.

I've got a lot to say about my life, about what I went through in prison and about what my family went through.

'Prisoner' is not a direct 'I've just been divorced' album, although that fire is burning very well on the record.

The aim has got to be to maximize the opportunities for prisoners, having got themselves clean and got themselves some training, to have the best possible chance of going straight when they come out.

We need to make investment to get the economy going again, to give the private sector the confidence.

You look at what happened with Chrysler, it went through that bankruptcy, and it's re-emerged in a much different fashion, privately held in some of those things, and it's really putting out a great product.

When I was in high school, I had a gambling problem.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

I'm still messed up and have all kinds of problems, just like anybody.

When my shoulder problems started, basic methods like massages and icing the shoulder did not help.

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.

My father was an alcoholic. I come from a family of them, so it's genetic luck or malfunction that I've ended up with no enzyme that processes it. I literally can't drink.

Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap.

If you screw up five films straight, then you're done. It's a business, the producer invests money and you need to make sure his money is recovered and in the process you give out the best film.

I have had about 15 operations due to the wrestling profession, and I have a problem with an abdominal hernia.

Anybody who's dealt with addiction and depression knows that sometimes they can make you forget who you are and kind of bring out a different person, somebody you don't know as well.

Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.

I broke ribs three different times.