Ken Hensley Quotes

Addiction is a terrible thing.

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

Everybody tells you over and over again that addiction is a disease. But when I read Nic's book I understood not just that this is a disease, but what the disease means.

Well, addiction does start with a choice.

It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.

Anybody who does 90 takes has a problem.

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.

I've always had an addictive nature.

If you've ever had anyone in your life who has been struggling with something, struggling with addiction or struggling with anything, and it's about the resilience of love and how much you're willing to struggle with somebody to preserve your relationship and to try to preserve them as a person.

Dramas about addiction can be exciting to watch. And then dispiriting. Exciting because degradation is fascinating to follow from the relative safety and smugness of an 'appropriate' life, and dispiriting because if all that sad mayhem can happen to this or that character, what's to keep it from happening to me or you?

Addiction is not a curable condition.

Unfortunately, with addiction, there's manipulation and deception.

Being in recovery for a lot of years now, I've worked with a lot of people who've gotten sober and sat with a lot of folks who are suffering. Bearing witness is a really underrated thing; it's a big damn deal.

A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength.

If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.

Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right.

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

I am an addictive personality.

Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.

The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.

It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.

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