David Edwards Quotes

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

When I stopped drinking, it was only because I thought if I don't stop, I'm going to die.

Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.

I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.

But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking.

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

I just think my body can't handle it any more. I did try a little drink a while back, and I was actually physically ill. I went into an immediate depression, and felt awful, just dreadful. So that's it. I'm over it now.

Being sober is not a struggle for me.

Why is it a badge of honour to say you spent 15 years in AA ball?

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

When I got sober, that was 1990.

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

Okay, I've admitted to drinking too much. Okay, so I'm dealing with it.

I basically gave up drinking. Personally, I thought I was drinking too much and, over the long run, it caught up with me.

It's funny, because when you tell people you've stopped drinking, there's an automatic reaction. People ask, 'Was it a lifestyle choice or were you waking up in a skip?'

I'll be seeking professional help with regards to alcohol and, until myself and the club feel this is under control, I'll be off the drink.

And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink.' Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'

I'm very proud of my sobriety now.

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.

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.

But she told me she was never going to drink again.