Jackson Browne Quotes

I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse.

Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution.

I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine.

I was bangin’ 7 gram rocks and finishing them because that’s how I roll

I'd go on runs [on cocaine ], four and five days without sleep. Then I'd crash and sleep about 18 hours a day for seven to ten days. Then it would take a few more weeks to get over a vague sort of depression. Then I'd be off on another run.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

I wasn't eating. I wasn't sleeping. All I was doing was cocaine. I stayed awake for about two weeks, locked in my bedroom. I went down from a 142 pounds to 110 pounds.

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

I only get ill when I give up drugs.

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.

Drugs made me feel more normal.

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

Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time.

I loved downers, almost any kind. Loved the colors of them. Loved them yellow... I did. I would just have a bouquet in my hands at night.

... franking junkies ...

People are slaves to a plant! Cocoa, cocaine, the coca plant—people are hooked on a vegetable!

Drug abuse is a very difficult disease.

It is a lot of work being an addict. There's nothing harder than being an addict.

There were times when I got frightened. Things weren't going right, so I just went out and got smashed. That's me. Something goes wrong, I find a bottle. I don't like it about myself but I've done it before and I'll do it again. But I never vanished for days or held up shooting or quit the picture.

My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Don't do drugs to be cool, do 'em because you hate yourself.

In terms of coke, the only money I ever thought about was that dollar bill I had stuck up my nose.

How am I going to listen to that horrible noise I make without a gram of coke and a couple of double Jack Daniels?

I don't like the drugs, but the drugs like me.