Macklemore Quotes

(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I’m writing about is me. It seems wiser to let him think I’m an aspiring novelist instead of just an alcoholic with a year of sobriety who spends eight hours a day writing about the other 16.

When I got sober, that was 1990.

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

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

I had what AA calls 'a convincer' - which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.

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.

The songs that I'm able to write are the songs I'm able to write, whatever they may be. The path I've cut for myself is pop music - love-y pop music. That's what I enjoy doing. And I don't think I'm going to get sick of it anytime soon.

It would get really alienating, to have my face be the face of a cause. So much just comes down to the songs. I just want to give us the opportunity to write great songs. Even our work in Haiti is limited by how good our songs are. We just need to get rid of as much of the bullshit as possible, so we can have a life, so we have something to write about.

I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it.

I am full of theories that are based on a very liquid foundation, because I used to be a drinker.

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.

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.'

When I was still drinking, I thought I was kind of in control of everything in my life and other people's lives and realized at some point that that just wasn't the case at all.

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

'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There's a thread running down the Fugard line of alcoholism. Thankfully I haven't passed it on to my child, a wonderful daughter who's stone-cold sober. But I had the tendency from my father, just as he had had it from his father.

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.

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

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.

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

Yeah, I admit to myself, yeah, I'm an alcoholic.

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

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.