And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink.' Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I just don't drink alcohol. I never have; I never will.
I don't drink. I don't do drugs.
I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'
People come up to me in airports, they walk into the office, and they say, 'I'm going to cry; I'm going to pass out.' And I say, 'Please don't pass out; I'm not a doctor.'
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.
The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.
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.
People come up to me and talk about the alcoholism in their family.
I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending.
What can I say, I'm an alcoholic. It's what I do.