Chester Bennington Quotes

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.

Okay, I've admitted to drinking too much. Okay, so I'm dealing with it.

I will never drink again.

I quit drinking because I thought somewhere I had fallen in that trap of addiction, and the only way to get out of it was to acknowledge it to myself.

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

My mother is still battling alcoholism.

I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

I just think my body can't handle it any more. I did try a little drink a while back, and I was actually physically ill. I went into an immediate depression, and felt awful, just dreadful. So that's it. I'm over it now.

Home Protection—protection against the tyranny of drink.

I'm not an alcoholic.

I got sober at age forty-two.

It's funny, because when you tell people you've stopped drinking, there's an automatic reaction. People ask, 'Was it a lifestyle choice or were you waking up in a skip?'

I don't drink anymore.

I was probably born an alcoholic.

There have definitely been phases of the National, many years ago, where we did party, and various people, in their own way, fell off the wagon.