Johnny Thunders Quotes

Rehab is like a divorce.

I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.

I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't.

But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.

I'll be a good boy, please make me well. I promise you anything, get me out of this hell. Cold turkey has got me on the run.

When I got sober, that was 1990.

I wasn't able to make the full commitment until I met 'Celebrity Rehab's' Dr. Drew.

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 prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

I was never at a place where rehab would have been appropriate.

Many years ago, when I was working on Broadway, I used to go to a drug rehabilitation centre on Sundays. I didn't lecture them against the perils of drug-taking; I gave them drama therapy.

Rehab is amazing. It reminds me of football camp. Kind of like the Washington Redskins camp I went to as a kid.

The road to sobriety is not easy and rehabilitation and the recovery process are not to be taken lightly.

I'm clean and sober.

I remember telling Mom, 'I can't go to the Betty Ford Center. That's like going to the high school where your mom is the principal.' But maybe I could have gotten the family rate.

Ryan took him out of Betty Ford after Redmond wanted to leave because he met a girl there. The girl was a heroin addict. She was the one who introduced him to the stuff.

I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.

It is clear to me that my life has become completely unmanageable because I am addicted to alcohol and drugs.

I'm not sober. I haven't done drugs in 3 1/2 years, so I call myself clean.

At 18, if someone had said to me, "I think you should go to rehab and get cleaned up," I would have thought, "You're fucking mad."

Now working is terribly painful and I'm still having a fight with the booze. I've enlisted the help of a doctor but it's touch and go. A day for me; a day for the hootch.

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've been drunk only once in my life. But that lasted for twenty-three years.