Macklemore Quotes

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

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.

Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink.

'Higher Power' was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It's a very, very tough thing - very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

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.

Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around

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.

When I got sober, that was 1990.

I do not understand rehab. If it works for people, then God bless them.

When the addict gets recovery, his family gets recovery, right?

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

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

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

I had to come to terms about becoming an addict, which, for a long time, I lied to myself about the status of until I couldn't lie any more, 'cause I was either going to die or get better.

One of the things that's often forgotten about drug rehabilitation, it's not a destiny. It's a journey.

I don't have, you know, an 'overcoming addiction' story, other than the guitar itself, and I haven't overcome that. I don't have a jail time, you know, story, or any arrests.

Rehab is like a divorce.

I had two experiences. I had a wonderful experience in rehab, and I had a terrible experience in rehab. But, to be honest, in the end, it wasn't rehab that got me sober. It was just finally surrendering and saying, 'I don't want to do this anymore. I can't do this anymore. Somebody help me.'

I understand the world of addiction. I get it. I know how fleeting recovery can be.

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

I just need to do Pac's work. I just need to. Maybe because I'm a recovering addict, I'm obsessed like that.

I went off the rails for a few years with drink and different things.

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.