Anne Roiphe Quotes

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

While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will.

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

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.

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.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the routine. And there was a point where he just kind of gave up. He couldn't face being 40. And he resorted to stimulants. There's a dark side there, a really dark side.

I'm really happy when I'm actively creating things. When I'm frustrated and not excited, it's because I haven't written anything in a month or so.

No one should do drugs thinking that they will make a great record. That's not the way to go, for sure.

When I started doing music full time, I figured out my job wasn't something I needed to be completely sober for.

I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it.

In music so many people who have been addicts or suicidal are legends. People have this mentality, still, of thinking that if they go take care of themselves then they won't be as creative as they used to be. But I think that's bullshit. I bought into that one for years and I regret it because when I first went on medications, I thought I wouldn't be funny anymore. I thought I'd have to figure out a new life path but at least I'd be alive. But it turns out that I'm actually way more funny and organized and able to have a career now that I'm able to have my head on straight.

When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for.

I never understood why people take drugs. They're habit forming and they can kill you. I didn't need anything to pep me up or make me feel more creative, and I didn't need them to help me with women.

If I wasn't a musician I'd probably be like a meth addict.

I was always the type of person, and still am the type of person, that I cannot be creative and use substances. So from a very early age I knew that if I wanted to make music, successfully, in any capacity, I was going to have to get sober.

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

Addictive behavior is kind of the inverse of procrastination: procrastination is about not being able to do what you want to do, addiction about not being able to not do what you don't want to do (drink, use drugs, etc.)

I wanna keep being productive and creative.

I've never regretted saying no to anything, or finishing something. When I'm in the middle of doing something I love, I can have a better idea, and I'll go, "Oh God, I can't finish this." Maybe I've got some sort of disorder.

Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.

Worry destroys the ability to write.

writers just kept on staring at nothing until they wrote something. Might be two minutes or two weeks.