Quotes About Addiction

I got sober at age forty-two.

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

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

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.

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

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

I got sober when I was 22 years old.

When I got sober, that was 1990.

I got sober for good on December 7, 2008.

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.

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

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.

Somebody once asked me how I define sobriety, and my response was 'liberation from dependence.'

If you're a dope like me, you get every sports channel you can get. I'm watching, you know, Netherlands soccer.

I have mixed feelings about how fast things are changing as a result of technology. There's no denying that through technology there are amazing things being created that help people with diseases or help people's dreams come true. But there's also this obsession. Social media is the most dangerous of them all.

It's so funny how social media was just this fun thing, and now it's this monster that consumes so many millennial lives.

If I did have social media, I would spend way to much time on it. It is way too addictive for me.

If your social media addiction comes between your relationship, you might want to quit.

I'm hardly a smartphone addict. I rarely look at social media.

I am a massive fan of tele. When I have an evening off I just crash in front of the sofa and binge. I love it.

But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.

I realized I was a gamer when I didn't sleep three consecutive nights playing EverQuest, which was a popular MMORPG sold at retail.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.