People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
I never got to the point of needing drugs or thinking about giving up myself.
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.
I find drug use disrespectful, self-destructive, and weak. I want no part of it.
I had to come to terms about becoming an addict, which, for a long time, I lied to myself about the status of until I couldn't lie any more, 'cause I was either going to die or get better.
The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.
You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.
Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
I really have a problem with any kind of drug, I always have.
If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation.