Quotes About Recovery

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.

When Patrick finally broke his silence with 2008's 'Anthems For the Damned' - the first Filter album that he recorded sober - fans were decidedly lukewarm.

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.

I got sober when I was 22 years old.

I'm totally clean and sober my whole life.

When I got sober, that was 1990.

I got sober for good on December 7, 2008.

Being sober is not a struggle for me.

I'm clean and sober.

I'm a much more successful and happier person sober. And I'm nicer to be around.

If you think of 'Chandelier,' Sia's singing her heart out about all those moments before she got sober, and that's one way to convey emotion and make people hear every word.

When I got clean and sober, that was a major change in my life.

I got sober at 27 and started writing around 30 and started playing music in public around 32, 33.

When I finally got sober, I moved towards what I might have been if I hadn't been destroying myself when I was young.

I am a new man, and the man you see before you is the one I was always meant to be. This decision to be sober is a lifetime decision.

When I decided to get sober, there were a lot of chemical imbalances that came along with that, physically as well as mentally.

I've been clean and sober for 17 years. I am a control freak and must have a plan for everything I do now. I am also self-contained and happy.

The thing that drove me, and the thing that still drives me today to stay sober is all the blessings that have come into my life since this happened.

I used to say, if Jim were alive today he'd never be clean and sober but I'm changing that answer because Eminem - angry, creative, just like Jim; a real talent - and Clapton, of course. It's a different time so he would have learned something, I think, but I don't protect what he did.

The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.

I can't emphasise enough how grateful I am to have come upon sobriety.

Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.