Josh Gordon Quotes

I'm a recovering alcoholic so I should be home.

I'm totally clean and sober my whole life.

I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.

When I got sober, that was 1990.

And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink.' Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'

I'm very proud of my sobriety now.

For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don't think that that's necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life.

Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.

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

I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.

I got sober, and I got happy again.

I'm very happy with my decision to go sober. It's helped my life. It's helped my mental stability.

I do not understand rehab. If it works for people, then God bless them.

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.

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.

Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink.

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

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!

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.

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.

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.

Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.

I was really proactive in trying to heal my family. I wouldn't give up. My whole life was about trying to get my father healthier, and there were moments when he was healthier. Then someone would give him a drink. I always felt if he had one person in his life who supported his healthy side, he'd be on his way.

I've triumphed over addiction.