Frances Bean Cobain Quotes

And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink.' Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'

Once you're known to be an alcoholic, that's how many people identify you, which could be a reason not to talk about it.

Why is it a badge of honour to say you spent 15 years in AA ball?

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 never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

I'm a recovering alcoholic so I should be home.

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

I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image.

I think a lot of people are scared, and I know I was scared to get sober, at least using this as an excuse; 'I don't want to be one of those sober people.' And I don't think you have to be. I think you can be one of those people who happens to be sober.

But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.

When I stopped drinking, it was only because I thought if I don't stop, I'm going to die.

I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

It's not cool to be an alcoholic.

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

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.

I just think my body can't handle it any more. I did try a little drink a while back, and I was actually physically ill. I went into an immediate depression, and felt awful, just dreadful. So that's it. I'm over it now.

I don't have many regrets in my life. But I have one. I would have stayed sober all along.

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.