Jason Isbell Quotes

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.

When I finally got sober, I moved towards what I might have been if I hadn't been destroying myself when I was young.

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

I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking.

I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more.

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.

My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.

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.

The first thought that I had about really trying to get sober was, 'Man, I could do a lot of good in the world. I can lead by example and just be this heroic recovery guy.' And that's just a bad reason to get sober. You can't get sober for anybody's benefit, let alone the world at large. You really got to do it for yourself.

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.

When I stopped drinking... there were so many things I had to face that I didn't even realize were part of my makeup before. When you do that and have any changes that severe, you lose a lot of things, both good and bad.

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, and I got happy again.

When you get into recovery, you have to relearn a lot of perceptions, attitudes, and self-awareness if you want to stay clean. You really do change.

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.

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

When you first get sober, you feel like a superhero. You feel real emotion because you've been suppressing it forever. It's so much easier to navigate what's important.

I'm sober now and very happy.

The thing that drove me, and the thing that still drives me today to stay sober is all the blessings that have come into my life since this happened.

Yoga is how I got sober.

When I got sober, that was 1990.

I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.

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