Drugs made me feel more normal.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.
I took drugs because we all took drugs.
I know I didn't want to get caught up in the cycle of drugs and violence that was around me. Deep down inside, I felt there was something better outside the situation I was in.
I've never done drugs. That's because I saw this stuff literally every day when I was 3 or 4 years old.
A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then.
And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use.
I tried to give up drugs by drinking.
Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.
Drugs scared me.
I felt that to do this drug, I had to become someone totally different than I was. I had to compromise my integrity, my value system. I knew it was so wrong.