Anthony Kiedis Quotes

Addiction is a terrible thing.

I have an addiction. I have a mental illness.

The tragic fact is that with addiction, like many other illnesses, sometimes you can do everything right and people die.

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.

The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.

The alcoholic suffers from a disease.

I've dealt with a lot of physical pain, with a lot of emotional pain; anybody's who's ever been an alcoholic has handled both of those in extreme.

Relapse happens, especially when you're dealing with folks who are frankly the least likely to succeed based on their own pasts and difficulties. We can work with the most likely to succeed. I'm not interested in that.

Above anything else - above family or job - the main thing is staying sober. That's because without being sober, I don't have a family.

Though addiction is a disease - a brain disease that's often progressive - addicts who relapse are often blamed.

I love to help others that are suffering from the disease of addiction, and I'm just very, very passionate about that.

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'm a chronic relapser. I guess I always will be.

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.

I only get ill when I give up drugs.

My natural mother passed away from cystic fibrosis when I was a toddler, so I feel a great deal of empathy for people who are struggling with disease.

If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

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

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.

This is the hardest thing I've ever done. The rehab has not gone as expected.

You don't have free will when you have lung cancer.

The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.