James Taylor Quotes

I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. She finally came to her senses and divorced me.

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth.

I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.

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

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

What can I say, I'm an alcoholic. It's what I do.

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

I was probably born an alcoholic.

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

When I was still drinking, I thought I was kind of in control of everything in my life and other people's lives and realized at some point that that just wasn't the case at all.

My mother is still battling alcoholism.

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

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 am a recovering alcoholic.

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.

It's not cool to be an alcoholic.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.

I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.