Harvey Martin Quotes

I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

I can't emphasise enough how grateful I am to have come upon sobriety.

I'm sure that I am enjoying my sobriety. And respect it. If you've been through what I've been through, then you really do treasure it.

I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.

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'm a recovering alcoholic so I should be home.

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

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.

Anybody that's not supportive of me staying sober obviously has to go. But on the other hand, there are not really a lot of people who don't want me to stay sober. I was a nightmare.

One of the things that's often forgotten about drug rehabilitation, it's not a destiny. It's a journey.

When I told the fans I was an alcoholic, they all applauded. When I told them I had given myself to a higher power, they cheered again.

I got sober, and I got happy again.

When you get into recovery, you have to relearn a lot of perceptions, attitudes, and self-awareness if you want to stay clean. You really do change.

I'm sober now and very happy.

The thing that drove me, and the thing that still drives me today to stay sober is all the blessings that have come into my life since this happened.

I, myself, have not infrequently come across recovering addicts years later that I had given up on. It is like seeing a ghost come to life. The transformations can be astonishing.

When I got sober, that was 1990.

When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.

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

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.

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.

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'm totally clean and sober my whole life.

Well, I'm still here. Didn't have to go to rehab, and I'm not broke.