Ryan Adams Quotes

the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

I don't know whether I will drink again in my life but I didn't drink yesterday, I am not drinking today and I'll try not to drink again tomorrow.

I haven't had an alcoholic drink in 22 years, but when I did drink I'd go for either Canadian whisky or Budweiser. Sometimes both. For a long time I used to think "Hey you, get off the floor!" was my name.

I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.

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

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

... the sin of drunkenness which is the root of all sins.

This government can't afford two drunkards. You've got to stop.

If you are to be employed by the BBC, you must promise not to get drunk…. You look as if you will be washed out of poetry by whisky.

It's better to take sobriety with you when you work.

I quit drinking, smoking, doing anything bad.

When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at last able to leave Piss-Artists Notorious.

Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.

Simon Gray, I decided when I first witnessed this frog into prince transformation, did not have a drinking problem. He had a drinking solution.

I knew that if I woke up hung over, I couldn't do the best possible job on the show, so I had to quit. Also, I'd consumed a lot of beer for a lot of years, and I thought, That's enough. I've had my fun and I'm glad I quit.

I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.

I hate when your friends quit drinking on you, don't you? It's sad. I've lost more friends to AA than Liberace did to the virus. It's sad to see 'em go. You see a thirty day chip on your buddy's key ring, it's like seeing a toe tag on his cold, stiff corpse.

I think I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn't just stop, once and for all when I did. I am not ever going to preach to anyone about drugs or drinking. But, for me, when they were around, I had no self control.

I don’t drink anymore - just the same amount.

I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.