Mick Jagger Quotes

Alcohol, acid, cocaine... they were just affairs. When I met heroin it was true love.

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

I used to go to work and take heroin in the studio and then stop when I came home.

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

I did a lot of drugs. I didn't do multiple drugs, but I overindulged in whatever drug of choice.

I am diagnosed with not having enough insanely-addictive drugs coursing through my body.

It's not a drug problem, until you run out of money. Until then it's just drugs.

I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with.

Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.

I used to do a lot of drugs. I didn't stop because I didn't enjoy them; I stopped because I couldn't handle the commitment.

not all drugs are good.. some of them are great

Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.

It is clear to me that my life has become completely unmanageable because I am addicted to alcohol and drugs.

I don't like the drugs, but the drugs like me.

I certainly wouldn't advocate anyone using drugs on a regular or habitual basis.

There was a time I thought I couldn't enjoy rock 'n' roll unless I had heroin in me

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.

Cocaine was different. It kept saying, "You haven't had enough." I became an abuser almost instantly.

If you're really on some heavily addictive drug, you think about the drug, and everything else is secondary. You try and make everything work, but the drug comes first.

I did masses of opiates religiously.

In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice.

You start doing the addictive behavior to feel good and then your receptors get overloaded with dopamine, then you stop doing the addictive thing and some of the receptors have shut down and you don't have enough dopamine to feel good. So then you feel bad and go back to the addictive behavior to get more dopamine. The strange thing is that it works with what we think of as uppers and downers and whatever you call gambling - sidewaysers.

I've been a practicing alcoholic and drug addict for most of my life.