Trey Anastasio Quotes

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

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

I'm a recovering alcoholic so I should be home.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst.

I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

Rehab is like a divorce.

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

My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.

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 drink to forget I drink.

I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more.

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.

I was the one that put myself in rehab. I was the one that went to my parents and said, you know, 'I have a problem and I need to take care of it.'

I didn't check into rehab. Instead of me heading into a place - I was just drinking too much and I needed to get my life together. I'm still in therapy and stuff like that, but it's good. I'm great. I feel fine.

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.

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

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it.

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

I'm like this wiry freak they pulled out of a bar two months ago and said, 'Let's throw it on the wall and see if it sticks.'

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

It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.

If I hadn't become a celebrity, I'd probably be an alcoholic.

I couldn't have gotten sober without rehab because I needed the science.

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went to people who knew more than I did.