Andrew W.K. Quotes

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

I drink to forget I drink.

I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.

And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.

I just love having a buzz all the time, regardless of the consequences.

I drink too much, I smoke too much, I take pills too much, I work too much, I girl around too much, I everything too much.

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.

I think I bought into that whole rock n' roll lifestyle, and all that does in the end is kill ya. So I don't recommend it to anyone.

When I was drinking I was thinking I was having a good time but it came back twice as bad, the depression. It was just a vicious circle - drinking, not caring about myself - and it gave me a bad low.

A pill to make you numb A pill to make you dumb A pill to make you anybody else But all the drugs in this world Won't save her from herself.

From this moment on I'd dedicate my life to rock and roll and take as many drugs as possible. What could possibly go wrong?

It's hard to believe that you did so many drugs for so long. That's what I find really hard. And didn't really consider it. It was eating and drinking and taking drugs and having sex. It was just part of life.

The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill.

Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living.

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.

I found popularity through self-destruction, and that can be quite addictive.