Anthony Kiedis Quotes

I'm totally clean and sober my whole life.

I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.

Drugs have played no significant factor in my life.

I've triumphed over addiction.

Being sober is not a struggle for me.

I do believe that I'm an addict on one level or another at all times.

When I got sober, that was 1990.

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

I don't drink. I don't do drugs.

I'm very proud of my sobriety now.

What's the point of staying sober?

For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don't think that that's necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life.

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

Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore.

Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink.

I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.

I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.

I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.

Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.

I think a lot of people are scared, and I know I was scared to get sober, at least using this as an excuse; 'I don't want to be one of those sober people.' And I don't think you have to be. I think you can be one of those people who happens to be sober.

I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alcohol is a terrible handicap. But in spite of being a handicap, it shouldn't be criminal.