Quotes About Recovery

I went off the rails for a few years with drink and different things.

If your budget is in good shape and you are not indebted too much, you can do what the U.S. did at the beginning of the '30s - building railways, etc., but when you don't have that, you must be far more cautious.

I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children.

With Hurricane Katrina and all that kind of stuff happening, you needed somebody to rally for your city, to tell that story. Since Hurricane Katrina, we didn't really have nobody that said, 'I'm gonna tell New Orleans' story, and I'm gonna stick to New Orleans.'

I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.

I was on my way to fetch my little sister from school when I met with an accident. A bike which was at a very high speed ran over my leg while I was crossing the road. My leg was so badly fractured that it took me almost seven months to be able to stand on my legs again.

I can't speak for everybody. But I will say that for me, when I've been depressed - and I get depressed. I have irrational bouts of anxiety. I have random FedEx deliveries of despondency. Just like, 'I didn't order this. Oh, well, keep the PJs on, cancel everything you're doing today. It's time to take a sad shower.'

There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.

I was banned when I feel I was at my peak, and anyone in my shoes would feel the same way I did and would also have gone through the whole range of emotions that I did.

I used to think I was a bad person, I'd drink and gamble a lot and I didn't want to but I kept on doing it and ending back at the same place. It made me think 'this can't be right, I'm not that bad of a person'.

I used to have a gambling problem.

I try to not put two bad games together.

For me, it is important to take gaps after finishing a project.

Gear not working on a live show - that is rough.

After a big war a nation doesn't want another for a generation or more.

After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

I'm getting better, but I used to pull away from emotion, and from people.

The story of getting better can be just as compelling as the story of falling apart.

Very few men can fall as far as I have and come back. People see me and it's like they've seen a ghost, like I'm back from the dead.

You need some time off from baseball. Like, when you have a bad game, or you end up playing really good, you go home, and you need to chill out.

Life goes on after a breakup.

There are a lot of people in the Rust Belt who felt like, 'Nobody's concerned about me, and my shot at the American dream is going away.' We need to restore that.

As we build back better from Covid-19, we must not waste the golden opportunity to take back control.

I've gone through a lot as far as health.