Keith Richards Quotes

I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.

I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough to be one of the people who learned from that experience and moved on, where other people just got addicted and more addicted and more addicted until it killed them.

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.

And I want out of this life on drugs.

I used to do a lot of drugs. I didn't stop because I didn't enjoy them; I stopped because I couldn't handle the commitment.

It is clear to me that my life has become completely unmanageable because I am addicted to alcohol and drugs.

I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.

I've been trying to quit smoking weed and it's really hard quitting pot. It was actually easier to become a vegetarian because your friends never show up at your house with a sack of beef.

I did drugs for 18 years and I never got that bad as to say, 'You know what? I think the Kaiser Chiefs are brilliant.'

I'm a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn't pay off.

There's no drug that I would never take again.

I gotta quit smoking, doctor's orders, and the drinking, court orders.

No, I'm not a drug addict, and neither is my husband. If that were so, you'd get a lot less work out of me. It would show in the performances and in the work.

You really can't just take someone who's got a drug addiction and just put 'em in rehab. It doesn't work that way. You can't choose it for them. They have to choose it for themselves - because that's scary. It's really hard.

It's hard to believe that you did so many drugs for so long. That's what I find really hard. And didn't really consider it. It was eating and drinking and taking drugs and having sex. It was just part of life.

Everybody is on drugs . . . just give 'em what they want.

Of course I miss [drugs]. And anyone who tells you they don't is lying.

There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

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

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

I really have a problem with any kind of drug, I always have.

It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.

The difference with me is that I did inhale.

It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.