Neil Young Quotes

The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Going to 125, I don't even want to talk about it. I tried it for two days and after that, I can't.

I was, I am and I always will be a drug addict. A person who gets involved in drugs has to fight it everyday.

How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as well, like trying to commit suicide with a gas oven and unwittingly murdering your neighbors.

From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.

But time has set its maggot on their track.

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

What's the point of staying sober?

If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.

The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.

No addiction is good.

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.

Gollum is entirely based on the notion of addiction. The way that the ring pervades him, makes him craving, lustful, depletes him physically, psychologically and mentally.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

I was a functional addict.

They say you can smoke 400 cigs a day and drink 20 cups of coffee, but you can't have a line or a drink again.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict. It is the need to escape from a harsh reality.