At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.

It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.

Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I'm addressing it. I'm doing the work that I have to do.

I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person.

I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.