John Lennon Quotes

The motivations for using drugs, often it's pretty obvious and common: you know, peer pressure. You know, kids are struggling growing up.

Trauma super charges addiction and makes it really bad. It doesn't necessarily cause it, though it can trigger it. It's not necessarily the issue but if you have bad addiction, it's there.

They couldn't do a drugs story on me because I'd already done one on myself.

This is the way I look when I'm sober. That's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say?

I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It's not like it just happens.

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.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

If I want to be truthfully honest, I think, dealing with the stress of the situations that I've been going through, medicating with anything, I think, is dangerous because it becomes a crutch.

I don't know if I was born an alcoholic, but I was definitely born anxious.

Certain people are more likely to use drugs because of whatever it is: They've suffered some trauma in their life. They have risk factors like mental illness, people with learning disabilities, with attention problems.

Childhood trauma is really what puts the rocket fuel behind addiction.

To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage Weltscbmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?

Taking drugs to overcome nerves is the thin edge of the wedge going in there.

I can't stand when people use drugs as an escape. It's like, everybody suffers. Deal with your issues, you'll feel so much better.

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

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.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

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