Frankie Grande Quotes

I had to change my relationship with alcohol in order to become the man that I knew I could be and that my family would be proud of.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life talking about when I used to drink or when I used to take drugs. I'm more interested in the future.

I have to reinvent myself.

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.

The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing in its place a family of my own.

Since I've quit drinking, I'm not sure I've found the good life, but I've certainly uncovered a better one.

I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn't want me to record for the Think Tank album... so I took it as a sign to leave.

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 admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

Change doesn't happen often, but to a certain extent in some way, I think when you get into recovery and you stay there, you change.

When I was writing 'Southeastern,' I'd just recently gotten sober. For me, that was a major turning point in my life. It changed things I did on a day-to-day basis. My whole routine was upended. It took me some time to get used to that and figure out how do I keep myself entertained.

In 1969, I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

When you first get sober, you feel like a superhero. You feel real emotion because you've been suppressing it forever. It's so much easier to navigate what's important.

When I finally got sober, I moved towards what I might have been if I hadn't been destroying myself when I was young.

When I got clean and sober, that was a major change in my life.

I don't drink anymore.

I believe in what I do. I mean, I don't go out - I don't have the clothes or drink anymore, I don't do drugs or any of that. I used to. But I got very ready to get me out of the house.

You have the capacity to change the plotline of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember.

I used to be an angry man myself. I’m a recovering assaholic so I could recognize that in Steve. (quoting Jean-Louis Gassée)

Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.

I feel good that I have my life in order. I'm not addicted to anything that I'm aware of.

So I kind of lost track for a while, then I came back, I pulled myself together and I decided when I was 15 that I'm going to get sober and I'm going to become an actress.

I went into rehab to save my marriage, but I wound up saving myself.

Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.

Self-reform is the only kind that works.