As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?

Sometimes the right choice seems great at the moment, but then suddenly it's as if somebody detonated a suicide bomb.

Fear is never a good enough reason to do nothing

I don't want to get high with my kids, because then everything is different forever. That's so stupid, I think.

The nights I don't sleep it's because there's a higher calling telling me to stand guard.

I just think the whole disease model of addiction is crap. It's rooted in fiction and junk science.

I'm not in any way religious. I don't go to church, but I consider myself spiritual.