#Sobriety Quotes

“I never had a drink in my life. I don't smoke or anything.”

“After I quit drinking, I realized I am the same asshole I always was; I just have fewer dents in my car.”

“I stopped drinking when I had children because I wanted to be awake and aware. I did not want to be going, you know, daddy loves you and then drop my head on the table. I do not want to miss anything that they do or say. It is important to me.”

“I had to stop drinking alcohol, because I used to wake up nude in front of my car with my keys in my ass.”

“I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.”

“Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.[Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]”

“No sober person dances.”

“If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.”

“Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.”

“Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.”

“The Class Clown album was done totally sober. I'd realized what a hell I'd made for myself and I cleaned up completely for three months. You can hear the clarity of my thinking and of my speech on that album.”

“It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.”

“It was my decision to get clean, I did it for me Admittedly I probably did it subliminally for you”

“It was a slow process. You gotta remember I hadn't recorded a song sober in seven years. So it took me awhile to even feel like I could record a song sober.”

“It's a trip when people take sobriety for granted. Feeling trapped in my addiction and then getting sober - you appreciate it so much more, because I didn't know if I would ever know what it's like to feel normal again, ever.”

“Getting clean made me grow up. I feel like all the years that I was using drugs, I wasn't growing as a person.”