KT Tunstall Quotes

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open.

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

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

Caffeine. The gateway drug.

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

I've always had an addictive nature.

Gollum is entirely based on the notion of addiction. The way that the ring pervades him, makes him craving, lustful, depletes him physically, psychologically and mentally.

Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!

Drug abuse is a very difficult disease.

I feel like a caffeine addict.

Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.

Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

Nobody understands that by the time the addiction has set in the alcoholic is mandated to drink ... he cannot not drink! Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, 'Jiminy Cricket, I feel sensational! My life is really in great shape! I think I'll become an alcoholic!' I firmly believe that when a shaking-to-pieces alcoholic says he needs a drink or he will die, he means it.

I wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix.

I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.

Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.

Drugs and alcohol can be so destructive.

With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.

I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.