Ringo Starr Quotes

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.

I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again.

When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at last able to leave Piss-Artists Notorious.

Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.

When I got sober, that was 1990.

Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

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.

Since I've quit drinking, I'm not sure I've found the good life, but I've certainly uncovered a better one.

I got sober, and I got happy again.

Change doesn't happen often, but to a certain extent in some way, I think when you get into recovery and you stay there, you change.

I'm sober now and very happy.

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

My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.

We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.

The sad fact is that the vast majority of drunks stay drunks. There's a small minority of us who reach that fork in the road where one side says 'live' and the other says 'drink'.

It took a great deal of acceptance to come to terms with being an alcoholic, but the acceptance was key to my sobriety. If I had not gained acceptance at that time in my life, I would not be standing here today.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.

I'm making plans to go away for a month to focus on my sobriety and to continue my life in recovery. Please enjoy making fun of me on the world wide web.

I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.

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.

And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink.' Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'

I'm very proud of my sobriety now.

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

I think it's important for me to show the world that sobriety hasn't made me soft. I'm on a mission to prove I'm still a nutcase.