Ike Turner Quotes

Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is.

I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.

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

I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.

I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.

Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students.

But if I wasn't playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away.

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.

I'm a nice guy, but not all the time. There are these personalities in me, so many of them. They come out at strange times. I can be one way, then five minutes later I'm another way.

Game is bipolar. One day he's this way, the next day he's the next.

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

In one day, I have times where I'm feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I'm the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking.

You don't need Beanie Sigel in the building with a pre-perception that this crazy dude might do anything.

Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.

I am a drinker with writing problems.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.

There is no accurate or useful 'profile' of students who engage in targeted school violence. Some come from good homes, some from bad. Some have good grades, some bad.

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

I am manic and that leads me to behave badly at times.

People close to me wouldn't have thought that I had a drinking problem because it wasn't evident although towards the very end of my drinking perhaps it became a little bit more of an issue.

My formative years were all shaped by a mother who was very sad and had a drinking problem, while my father was lonely and angry. He was an Episcopal priest and raised four kids on his own.

I suppose if I gave myself the chance I could be an alcoholic.