Roy Nelson Quotes

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

Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.

I think when people are abusing drugs it is probably a symptom of a bigger problem that they need to address.

I be getting high just to balance out the lows.

When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option.

Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.

My manager said, "Don't use liquor as a crutch!" I can't use liquor as a crutch, because a crutch helps me walk.

He was hiding from his problems in a bottle, something that went against every piece of my nature. Me? I couldnʹt let my problems win without a fight.

I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs.

I drink to forget I drink.

The day I pitched, I would drink either 'cause I was celebrating or I lost and couldn't sleep.

I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I'm definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they're like when you take their preferred substance away.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

I'm pretty good at remaining calm during an emergency. My house burned down when I was 12, which made me really pragmatic about what needed to be done. But I can be bad in that I compartmentalize a lot of emotions and push them away to deal with them at a later date.

I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.

Drugs made me feel more normal.

I take smack because I enjoy it. I enjoy all it makes me feel. I don't do it to be in with the in crowd. I can rock out with it.

Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.

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

Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.

You have problems, you think drink helps, then you have two problems.