Randy Bachman Quotes

But she told me she was never going to drink again.

I don't believe I'm a recovering alcoholic - I'm someone who used to drink. AA comes from a religious movement and that whole thing of 'I'm always burdened with this' and the original sin idea. It's not like that for me.

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.

I got sober at age forty-two.

I will never drink again.

I don't drink no more.

I don't drink anymore.

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

I was probably born an alcoholic.

And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink.' Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

I'm a recovering alcoholic so I should be home.

I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.

Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.

If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!

I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.

But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking.