Shawn Colvin Quotes

Sobriety has been the most life-affirming path for me.

When I got sober, that was 1990.

I'm very proud of my sobriety now.

I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.

I got sober when I was 22 years old.

I got sober, and I got happy again.

I can't emphasise enough how grateful I am to have come upon sobriety.

I think I've improved in a lot of ways because of being able to stay clean and sober.

Getting clean made me grow up. I feel like all the years that I was using drugs, I wasn't growing as a person.

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

I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said that I would die before I went to rehab. But I thought, 'I'm going to stay here tonight.' And I stayed there for a month. It was great.

Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

Anybody that's not supportive of me staying sober obviously has to go. But on the other hand, there are not really a lot of people who don't want me to stay sober. I was a nightmare.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.

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.

Going to rehab was the best decision I ever made.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being - my wife, Sheryl - which I was never able to do before.

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

I think all of those things, but certainly the booze really brought out the really unreasonable side of me, and I just didn't want to revisit that place again.

One of the things that's often forgotten about drug rehabilitation, it's not a destiny. It's a journey.

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.

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