Craig Ferguson Quotes

It's not that I will die, but if I stop partying, it will lead to extreme complications in my wellbeing.

I went off the rails for a few years with drink and different things.

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.

Drugs and sex go hand in hand when you're a rock and roll musician. Whereas if I were a violinist, it might be a little different.

You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.

You don't drink and smoke that much, and womanize that much, unless you really want to be punished, I think.

It was always fun in the early days of Black Sabbath, when I stayed away from heavy drugs. Then someone gave me cocaine and I went, "Hallelujah!" I thought I'd found the meaning of life!

I wanna die young and sell my soul, use up all your drugs and make me come.

It's amazing how low you go to get high.

Johnny Depp already seen how alcohol and drugs can get in the way of a career. And you have to remember one thing: Johnny was a guitar player and a rock-and-roller way before he was an actor. When he came to Los Angeles, he came with his band.

You start out playing rock 'n' roll so you can have sex and do drugs, but you end up doing drugs so you can still play rock 'n' roll and have sex.

I drink to forget I drink.

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.

And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.

You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.

Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix.

I just love having a buzz all the time, regardless of the consequences.

I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.

I drink too much, I smoke too much, I take pills too much, I work too much, I girl around too much, I everything too much.

Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life.

I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really.

The King, long in the habit of drowning his cares in wine, plunges deeper and deeper; the Queen cries out but, but sins on.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?

I think I bought into that whole rock n' roll lifestyle, and all that does in the end is kill ya. So I don't recommend it to anyone.