"The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be."
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"Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate."
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"The Federal Narcotics Bureau does a grave disservice by disseminating a lot of misinformation. Most of what they say is such nonsense that I didn't believe them about addiction."
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"I think I have an adrenaline addiction, no question about that."
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"Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention."
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"Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down. Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just made me withdrawn."
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"What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested."
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"Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death."
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"The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief."
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"Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues."
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"I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians."
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"The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite."
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"Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society."
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"Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can."
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"Worry is an addiction that interferes with compassion."
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"Soon you start craving that intense attention with the hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is withheld you probably turn sick, crazy and depleted not to mention resentful of the dealer who encourage this addiction in the first place but who now refuses to pony up the good stuff anymore despite that you know that he has it hidden somewhere God dammit because you know that he used to give it to you for free."
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"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."
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"A refrigerator is the opposite of a drug addict, because a refrigerator starts in a box and then moves to a house."
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"The only cure for addiction is spiritual."
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"If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something we haven't read before. A lot of these books are published because the writing is wonderful. The Frey book has superb writing, and that can be enough to sell a book."
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