Truman Capote Quotes

I didn't check into rehab. Instead of me heading into a place - I was just drinking too much and I needed to get my life together. I'm still in therapy and stuff like that, but it's good. I'm great. I feel fine.

I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person.

I've had a lot of self-esteem issues.

It's been so long since I've really truly felt what it's like to live life without substances to help. Massive struggle that's natural to one's health, but with addiction in my blood I play the cards I was dealt.

I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking.

I don't always understand my worth.

I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' And I have to say, it was the single biggest step I took toward emotional well-being, to stop feeling like I had to hide who I am.

I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.

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

I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was.

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

'Higher Power' was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It's a very, very tough thing - very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict.

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

The society focuses on the addict, and its impact on our quality of life, but we don't focus on people who are rehabilitated and in recovery.

I have an addiction. I have a mental illness.

Let's be honest: I call myself a titan. I've got issues.

I've had a mental illness for nearly half my life, and I can no longer imagine myself without it. It seems less like something that happened to me than like part of who I am; some days, it is the thing about me, but it is always at least a thing about me.

When I was diagnosed, I believed my illness would be my great, lifelong weakness. Bipolar disorder was to be my impenetrable prison, and I would be locked up with it in a castle Princess Toadstool style. Thinking there was no way out, I let it consume me.

It is a lot of work being an addict. There's nothing harder than being an addict.

I spent too many years of my life stressing over and struggling with my sexuality. But it was a valuable lesson. I realised that by not sharing how you feel, you become inhibited in every facet of life.

One of my best friends since I was eleven years old is a gay man, and I knew his struggle. It was a tough life, you not accepting yourself.

Anybody who's dealt with addiction and depression knows that sometimes they can make you forget who you are and kind of bring out a different person, somebody you don't know as well.

I always call my journey into sobriety, my journey into queerdom, because I really did hate everything about myself.

I want to continue to use my platform to tell my story to let young people that are struggling with their sexuality or identity know they are not alone, and it will get better.