Donatella Versace Quotes

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is.

It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.

Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

My personality is extremely unbalanced.

You don't scare me, Cadence Jones. I've lived with crazy, I've ridden with crazy, I've vacationed with crazy, I've visited crazy in various hospitals, I've sat in on therapy sessions with crazy. Frankly, I think women who don't have major emotional disorders are really very dull.

A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it.

How crazy craziness makes everyone, how irrationally afraid. The madness hidden in each of us, called to, identified, aroused like a lust. And against that the jaw sets. The more I fear my own insanity the more I must punish yours.

The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.

I was a violent, bipolar, compulsive liar. I was a real American.

But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am.

Crazy isn´t always what they say it is. It´s not always the old woman wearing sneakers and a skirt and a scarf, wandering around with a shopping cart, hollering at no one, nothing, tumbling through years in her head. No. Sometimes it is a girl wearing boots and jeans and a sweater, arms crossed in front of her, shivering, wandering through the streets at night, all night, murmuring to no one, nothing, tumbling through the strange unreal dimensions in her head.

If I wasn't a musician I'd probably be like a meth addict.

If you’re not crazy there’s something wrong with you. Willie Nelson

Do you have any notion of how goddamned crazy you are?

Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.

What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

I hit rock bottom when I was doing "The Brady Brides." I was supposed to be at the studio, screen testing to pick the guy that would play my husband. At this time, I had been up for three days doing coke and was playing solitaire in my closet.

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.

I didn't think my day could get any worse until my best friend told me she might be going crazy. Again.

I think everyone should go crazy at least once in their life. I don't think you've truly lived until you've thought about killing yourself.

Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.

And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what the cars, degrees, booze, and drugs were about.

When I hear alcoholics talk about having their demons, I think that they're probably absolutely literally correct.