Julien Baker Quotes

I have an addictive personality, so when I like something, I really want it all.

I just need to do Pac's work. I just need to. Maybe because I'm a recovering addict, I'm obsessed like that.

Well, addiction does start with a choice.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

I've always had an addictive nature.

Gollum is entirely based on the notion of addiction. The way that the ring pervades him, makes him craving, lustful, depletes him physically, psychologically and mentally.

You're an addiction...my obsession.

An addict is an addict. If they're not acting out in one area, it tends to come out in another. I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate.

You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.

The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.

Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now.

I wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix.

It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'

My brother Paul's really kind of obsessive, and he obsesses over things.

Addiction is a really hard thing to kick.

Addiction is a terrible thing.

I have a completely addictive personality. Diet Coke is my last - God, I know people counting days off Diet Coke; I'm such a Diet Cokehead. Now I won't let myself buy it.

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

I am an addictive personality.