When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I stopped drinking, it was only because I thought if I don't stop, I'm going to die.
I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.
I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.
I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.
When I was still drinking, I thought I was kind of in control of everything in my life and other people's lives and realized at some point that that just wasn't the case at all.
You have problems, you think drink helps, then you have two problems.
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.
But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking.
Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.