David Sheff Quotes

I've been doing a lot of drugs in the last few weeks and drinking less, and I feel much better.

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

I don't know how I made those movies. I went out every single night, I smoked pot every single day. I drank. We did everything, but I never became a drug addict or an alcoholic. Other friends are dead, many of them. So many people in this retrospective...in Female Trouble, almost everyone is dead.

I did mostly alcohol. There were drugs, too - pills - and there was a danger that I would go over the edge. I could have. I thank God I didn't.

I didn't become a drug addict because I always had to make a movie.

I knew there was never anyone to blame when people get into drugs. They're always responsible for their own behavior, and it's not the dealer, it's not the friend, it's not the bad influence, it's not the childhood.

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.

Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention.

We have not yet concluded that needle-exchange programs do not encourage drug use.

I do what I can to make young people understand that drugs can destroy their lives. I'm the perfect example of what people can accomplish when they have regained a sane body and spirit.

Educating young people about the harms of drugs is essential.

Just say no to drugs!

This was a result of a number of factors, but we do know that the messages kids get about the harms of drugs has a significant impact on their decision on whether or not to use.

Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s.

Should someone go to jail for just doing drugs? I believe the time has come for that to end.

I've never done drugs. That's because I saw this stuff literally every day when I was 3 or 4 years old.

I don't do drugs. I don't like drugs.

I want to tell the youth that we should not do drugs.

Anyone who advocates pill testing is giving the green light to drugs. That is absolutely unacceptable.

I've never been into artists promoting drugs.

I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.

I was never a cokehead or anything like that. I always despised that drug. I thought it was a waste of time, pointless.

If you're a drug addict, then you've always got drugs, so you're a criminal. So you're gonna get into problems.

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.'

There is not a single person alive who could keep a straight face and say "Oh yeah it's healthy, the reason I use drugs and alcohol and booze is because it's healthy!"