Steve-O Quotes

Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.

I could never identify with that word, 'weak.'

I have a lot of shame, and until I got sober at 42 years of age, I had never voted. I was just a hippie.

Getting sober was the single bravest thing I've ever done and will ever do in my life.

When I got sober, that was 1990.

I'm very proud of my sobriety now.

I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said that I would die before I went to rehab. But I thought, 'I'm going to stay here tonight.' And I stayed there for a month. It was great.

Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

It's a journey, it's a fight everyday. There was a real effort to stay in the program... So far this has been a very successful rehab.

My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.

Anybody that's not supportive of me staying sober obviously has to go. But on the other hand, there are not really a lot of people who don't want me to stay sober. I was a nightmare.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.

I think a lot of people are scared, and I know I was scared to get sober, at least using this as an excuse; 'I don't want to be one of those sober people.' And I don't think you have to be. I think you can be one of those people who happens to be sober.

I always thought I'm kind of a tough girl.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being - my wife, Sheryl - which I was never able to do before.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

In '85, I went through rehab and I wasn't ready. If you're not ready, you're not ready. You don't want to hear the truth, and you're gonna keep doing what you keep doing.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

There were times when rehab and the halfway house were very, very tough, but I never felt that I wanted to leave.

I got sober, and I got happy again.