Nikki Sixx Quotes

I was a functional addict.

Unfortunately, addicts don't respond to reason or rationality.

I understand the world of addiction. I get it. I know how fleeting recovery can be.

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

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.

I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything. I mean, I have to be very careful with myself as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around me consistently.

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

I am an addictive personality.

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

I've always had an addictive nature.

I don't have, you know, an 'overcoming addiction' story, other than the guitar itself, and I haven't overcome that. I don't have a jail time, you know, story, or any arrests.

I've always been an extremist. Some of us have very addictive personalities, and for some of us, that mechanism gets tripped up. Mine certainly did. I'm not cured. You never are. The recovery is a day-to-day process.

Addiction is a neurological disease—a disease of the brain…. No one wakes up in the morning and says today ‘I want to become an addict.’

I need to protect myself from my own addictive impulse.

Being sober is not a struggle for me.

Addicts are hard workers.

Addiction is not a curable condition.

Though addiction is a disease - a brain disease that's often progressive - addicts who relapse are often blamed.

I just need to do Pac's work. I just need to. Maybe because I'm a recovering addict, I'm obsessed like that.

When I got sober, that was 1990.

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.

I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead.

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

I've been watching a lot of A&E's 'Intervention.' I know that's sort of depressing, but I love watching it.