I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober.

I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

We have to thank the members of the Romantic movement for the sober colours of suits. It was their love of the Gothic that put us in grey and black but the suit stuck.

Three of my heroes that have gotten clean and sober that I got to ask for advice were Alice Cooper, Nikki Sixx and Zakk Wylde.

For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don't think that that's necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life.

I feel like if you wanna be sober and you can't handle being around someone who drinks, then don't do it.

It's bloody tough, bloody painful, trying to get sober on your own.

I used to say, if Jim were alive today he'd never be clean and sober but I'm changing that answer because Eminem - angry, creative, just like Jim; a real talent - and Clapton, of course. It's a different time so he would have learned something, I think, but I don't protect what he did.

I understand that kids look up to me, that some people might have gotten sober because of me.

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

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'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So, stop making fun of me!

I got sober at age forty-two.

I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.

The first year I was sober was probably the worst year of my life. My immune system was screwed. I completely isolated myself. I was weak all the time. I didn't know who I was.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.