Mike Love Quotes

There is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction.

I was, I am and I always will be a drug addict. A person who gets involved in drugs has to fight it everyday.

Cigarettes, cigarettes were much tougher. Booze was tough And I had a real drinking problem before as we discovered in the hospital really, but the cigarettes are much tougher and to tell you the truth.

Some turn to Jesus and some turn to heroin.

I'm a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn't pay off.

I knew if I got loaded I was going away for a while. People would say, Oh, you're just sober because you're on probation.

Drugs and alcohol were ruling my life. I made a lot of bad decisions while I was drinking alcohol. The first thing I stopped was cigarettes and tobacco.

Where there's dope, there's hope!

It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, "Ah, I've kicked drugs," but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead.

Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.

I said, to hell with the whole thing, to hell with show business. I'm gonna make a new life for myself, and I got off drugs, completely kicked all that stuff.

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.

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

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.

I was a functional addict.

I would be the last person to argue that people do not have the right, if they want to commit to spend part of their rent, for either alcohol or tobacco or entertainment, or anything else.

I have an addiction. I have a mental illness.

Addiction is a neurological disease—a disease of the brain…. No one wakes up in the morning and says today ‘I want to become an addict.’

I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.

Sometimes people say, do you want a drink? And I say, oh, I'd like to, but I'm a tragic alcoholic. I always say tragic. I'm a tragic alcoholic.

I used to do a lot of drugs. I didn't stop because I didn't enjoy them; I stopped because I couldn't handle the commitment.

People seek escape in myth by any means at their disposal, including drugs, alcohol, meditation, and lies.

Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.

People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.