Steve Earle Quotes

I'm part of AA. I have a sponsor. I have great, great friends who I love and who love me.

For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don't think that that's necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life.

Lot of my life is involved in the 12-step program and the church.

I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.

When I got sober, that was 1990.

The program of A.A., as written by Bill Wilson and Dr. Smith, only has one purpose: to get you sober. That's it. To make you a better person, forget it. That was one of the things he came to understand in those years of trial and error. It has to be about only one thing.

Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

If you ask me, I think 12-step programs are perfectly valid, can be an enormous help. But it depends on the individual.

I'm not a big AA guy, but I'll go every once in a while. They do tell you that going out and helping other people really helps you a lot. It seems like a simple thing to say, but it's really true.

I got sober for good on December 7, 2008.

The road to sobriety is not easy and rehabilitation and the recovery process are not to be taken lightly.

I don't object to AA at all - only the programs that insist that it's the only way to get clean and to stay clean.

There's really only one true path to recovery that's using the 12 step program and finding a belief in something greater than yourself (spirituality).

My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.

Oh my God, I love rehab! I highly recommend it.

My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.

Some people recovering from drugs or alcohol stay with the programs indefinitely, making the recovery program their family, a long-term source of attention rewards.

I got sober when I was 22 years old.

We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities.

I was never at a place where rehab would have been appropriate.

It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.

Rehab is like a divorce.

I'm clean and sober.

One of my dearest friends is alive only because of AA. But it doesn't help a lot of people. And everyone is different, and everyone needs different kinds of treatments.