David Sheff Quotes

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said that I would die before I went to rehab. But I thought, 'I'm going to stay here tonight.' And I stayed there for a month. It was great.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

I'm clean and sober.

Relapse is very dangerous. However, relapse can be a symptom of the disease. Sometimes there are multiple relapses before you get sober and stay sober.

After a hellish decade, my son got and stayed sober.

I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.

My mother is still battling alcoholism.

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

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look. People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem.

I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill.

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it.

Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.

The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went to people who knew more than I did.

I went into rehab December 14th, 1996, and got out eight months later? Then I went into a sober living place where I stayed for three months. I've been clean for a good year and a half.

I was never at a place where rehab would have been appropriate.

Okay, I've admitted to drinking too much. Okay, so I'm dealing with it.

I got sober at age forty-two.

Above anything else - above family or job - the main thing is staying sober. That's because without being sober, I don't have a family.

I love to help others that are suffering from the disease of addiction, and I'm just very, very passionate about that.

Addiction is a disease like anything else. It's like cancer, like heart disease, like diabetes.

I don't drink anymore.

There have definitely been phases of the National, many years ago, where we did party, and various people, in their own way, fell off the wagon.