The hallmark of addiction is that it changes your brain chemistry. It actually affects that part of your brain that's responsible for judgment.

We can't arrest and incarcerate addiction out of people. Not only do I think it's really inhumane, but it's ineffective and it cost us billions upon billions of dollars to keep doing this.

I think it's overly simplistic to say that any one single strategy is going to really change the focus and change the trajectory of drug use.

If I, in some small way can help people to see that there is this huge, incredible life on the other side of addiction, you know, I will feel accomplished in my job.

Addiction is a brain disease. This is not a moral failing. This is not about bad people who are choosing to continue to use drugs because they lack willpower.

Blunt force didn't knock out the drug epidemic. 21 million Americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol. And half of all federal inmates are in for drug crimes.

I'm one of 23 million Americans in recovery who have gone on to live productive lives.

People drink and do drugs for a reason. Cause it makes them feel good - until it doesn't anymore.

I would say that I probably had an unhealthy love affair with drinking. I grew up as this kind of insecure kid, you know, kind of making my way. And drinking took all of that away.

Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.

The USA has turned into a great country to study corporate government corruption.

We refuse to put guards on duty, we would rather pray for God’s protection.

My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.

I'm glad I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.

And I've been taking acting classes since I was 7.

Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them

It is really wonderful for me to understand that there are times in life when your job, and the excellence of your job, requires to not be - have the comfort zone of being popular.

Laziness is the mother of all evils.

I like to think that location, travel, etc, is a launching point for purely imagining.