Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

There was a lot of temptation to do lots of bad things in my neighborhood.

My mom, she was, at a young age, caught up in the worldly ways. At that time, it was very intriguing to be out partying and having fun. As a young mother, she was caught in that.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens.

When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away.

For a few months when I was about 17, I smoked a small cigar because I thought it looked cool and it would get me the girls. It didn't.

I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.

Temptation's something you have to deal with even if you're not famous. It's harder when you're famous because it's a lot more in your face, and that makes it a little more difficult to walk away from sometimes.

The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.

I have been exposed to a great amount of temptation throughout the course of my career.

I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

I've lost a bunch of friends - some of them in jail, some of them made bad choices, some of them aren't where they should be.

Sin may result from activities that begin innocently or that are perfectly legitimate in moderation, but in excess they can cause us to veer from the straight and narrow path to our destruction.

I never envy the guys who get attention for partying too much or behaving badly.

The concept of 'Bad Magic' is something that is incredibly intoxicating and magical but ultimately bad for you.

I think temptation is ever present to become something that you think is more socially acceptable.

When you get a bit older, life can start kicking and it was mainly the area I grew up in that began to lead me astray. I went down the wrong paths to some degree.

I want to tell the youth that we should not do drugs.

You don't hear about me being at parties, going out and gettin' drunk.

When friends started smoking at 16 or drinking at 18, I made myself not follow. No lads' holidays, all that stuff.

I'm not very good at staying up late and drinking or any of that stuff. It sort of freaks me out.

The fact is, when you are young, if you are mingling with wrong people, you tend to be misguided. You tend to be brainwashed easily.

With rock n' roll and touring comes a lot of good and bad decisions. These guys who are 21, they're out there, and they're not indestructible. The history of rock n' roll tells us, and so a lot of these guys are on this road to destruction.