James Taylor Quotes

Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.

I only get ill when I give up drugs.

There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction.

I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.

I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey, gin and vermouth-whatever I can lay my shaking hands on.

I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with.

For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abridged bad books, in the other. Either way you look at it, a withdrawal from a meaningful life.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

I do believe that I'm an addict on one level or another at all times.

Anybody who does 90 takes has a problem.

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.

I'm such a control freak, and it's very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me.

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.

Drugs made me feel more normal.

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.

Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix.

I just love having a buzz all the time, regardless of the consequences.

It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.

I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.

Unfortunately, addicts don't respond to reason or rationality.

Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life.