Sammy Hagar Quotes

I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

I was getting depressed, I was going out, having a few drinks and the worst thing you can do with depression is add alcohol to it.

To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage Weltscbmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?

I drink to forget I drink.

If people can't deal with their problems, they numb themselves a little bit.

'Comfy,' that's one of the worst words! I just picture a woman feeling bad, with a big bottle of alcohol, really puffy. It's really depressing, but she likes her life because she has comfortable clogs.

This is the way I look when I'm sober. That's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say?

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

You have problems, you think drink helps, then you have two problems.

If I did all the stuff I've been accused of - or credited with - there's no way I could make all this music. I'd be drinking myself into the grave.

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

The hardest thing in the world is to watch someone you love really not be able to get themselves together and really struggle on a level so bad when it seems and it appears that they have it all.

I think when people are abusing drugs it is probably a symptom of a bigger problem that they need to address.

Oh, I can't sleep, whatever - it's a huge problem. The comedian's thing is you self-medicate with alcohol and knock yourself out - but obviously, that's not a long-term strategy.

When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option.

I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.