Tyler Oakley Quotes

When I first went up to see my editor, I was with my agent, and my editor said, 'Well, what have you been doing all these years?' And my agent said, 'He's been in recovery. From his childhood.'

Most of my standup is about stuff that makes me uncomfortable. There are also things I don't joke about. I don't do jokes about the people who helped me get sober.

All of these guys who went through rehab have done so much therapy and so much work on themselves that they're totally open to talking about anything because they've done a lot of healing. You have to respect that.

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.

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

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.

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.

I'm just like anybody. I have my ups and downs.

I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

It's cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I've been going through in one way or another.

Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?

People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

I got sober, and I got happy again.

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.

'Creep,' unfortunately, was one of my true stories.

I have some great stories. But I am also very human, and I suffered an awful lot.

I'm sure that I am enjoying my sobriety. And respect it. If you've been through what I've been through, then you really do treasure it.

Everyone reacts to things differently but just identifying in your own life, what works, seeing what doesn't, is as important for to you to talk about your own mental health.

My life sucks when I’m only half-aware of it. If I quit drinking and saw what it’s really like, I’d probably jump off a bridge.

It isn't that I don't tackle issues; it's just that they're secondary to giving somebody an escape route from the banal routine of everyday life.

But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for my family of my recovery.

When I got sober, that was 1990.

I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.