Jason Isbell Quotes

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

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.

Yeah, I admit to myself, yeah, I'm an alcoholic.

The thing that I'm most proud of in my life is that if a stranger came up to me and said, 'I can't stop drinking. I can't stop drinking. Can you help me?' I can say, 'Yes, I can help you.'

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

I had to come to terms about becoming an addict, which, for a long time, I lied to myself about the status of until I couldn't lie any more, 'cause I was either going to die or get better.

Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

What can I say, I'm an alcoholic. It's what I do.

I went off the rails for a few years with drink and different things.

I was probably born an alcoholic.

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

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?

My mother is still battling alcoholism.

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

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth.

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it.

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

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

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

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.