Sonny Sandoval Quotes

I was still going out when I was younger - drinking - and I wasn't looking after myself properly.

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.

I just love having a buzz all the time, regardless of the consequences.

I'm such an addictive personality that I can say yes or no.

It's not that I will die, but if I stop partying, it will lead to extreme complications in my wellbeing.

Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.

There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.

I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me.

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

I had plenty of vices growing up.

I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.

I am an addictive personality.

And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

You know, at that age you want to show everyone else how wild you are. It's a combination of being bored, looking for a cheap thrill and being really stupid - a dangerous combination.

I couldn't say no to jobs and I couldn't say no to drugs. I'd get high from a movie, I'd be somebody else because I didn't particularly like me, so long as I had a script in my hand, I was okay. As soon as the movie was over, I didn't know what to do.

Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.

The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?