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I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it.

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

People come up to me and talk about the alcoholism in their family.

My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!

I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more.

But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed out that we all have the same genes as our mother and we're all susceptible to becoming alcoholics.

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.

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.