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We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

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

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 think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.

Anybody that's not supportive of me staying sober obviously has to go. But on the other hand, there are not really a lot of people who don't want me to stay sober. I was a nightmare.

Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.

I think that people get to a certain point in their life and they think that nothing can change.

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.

The dynamic of a relationship changes when one person gets sober.

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