Elton John Quotes About Drugs

Quotes about: Drugs

• I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

  Elton John

  Drug, Machines, Facts

• I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.

  Elton John

  Alcohol, Drug, Trying

• I've had my fills of cocaine and pills.

  Elton John

  Alcohol, Drug, Pills

  Song: Rotten Peaches Elton John Bernie Taupin, Album: Madman Across the Water

• Shock waves to a tired brain, sends that hungry lady to my door again. She's my shelter from the storm when I feel the rain, entertaining white powder.

  Elton John

  Rain, Tired, Doors

  Song: White Lady White Powder, Album: 21 At 33

• And it's one more beer and I don't hear you any more.

  Elton John

  Beer, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: Someone Saved My Life Tonight

• Drunk all the time, feeling fine on elderberry wine.

  Elton John

  Wine, Drunk, Alcohol

  Song: Elderberry Wine Elton John Bernie Taupin, Album: Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player

• I get bombed for breakfast in the morning, I get bombed for dinner.

  Elton John

  Morning, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: Social Disease Elton John Bernie Taupin, Album: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, 1973

• I get high in the evening sniffing pots of glue.

  Elton John

  Alcohol, Drug, Glue

  Song: The Bitch Is Back Elton John Bernie Taupin

• I'm a juvenile product of the working class, who's best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.

  Elton John

  Class, Glasses, Alcohol

• It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics to set you on your feet again.

  Elton John

  Couple, Feet, Alcohol

  Song: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, 1973

• But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.

  Elton John

  Addiction, Drug, Drug Addiction

• Well, we can't leave anyone behind just because they are sex workers or they are needle users, intravenous drug users, prostitutes.

  Elton John

  Sex, Drug, Needles

  "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

• I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever.

  Elton John

  Selfish, Years, Drug

• They're [[harmaceuticals companies] just making a killing out of people's death. And they're benefiting by people's suffering. And I find that obscene. I find it ridiculous in this day and age, that that would happen. And it took President Clinton to go to rogue pharmaceutical companies to copy the antiretroviral drugs for a fraction of the cost.

  Elton John

  People, Drug, Suffering

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I don't want to spend the rest of my life talking about when I used to drink or when I used to take drugs. I'm more interested in the future.

  Elton John

  Drug, Drink

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Onstage it was always comfortable for me because that's where I felt at home. Offstage it was a different situation. I was still shy offstage and unfortunately, my shyness and my inability to communicate and really have great conversations or be part of the gang - in inverted commas - led me to the drug addiction, which, you know, blighted my life for 16 years because I thought by doing that it would make me join in.

  Elton John

  Home, Years, Addiction

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 23, 2013.

• In my 20s I was so ignorant about drugs, and so naive. I mean, my band was smoking marijuana for years; I didn't even know what a joint was. And I'd never seen a line of cocaine in my life. And I don't know whether it was bravado or - OK, I'll join in. But my stupidity, I had a line of coke, and that started the whole process.

  Elton John

  Mean, Marijuana, Stupidity

  Source: www.wbur.org

• The work became like the drug addiction, the clothes, anything in my life. It became - it's become an addiction. I'm addicted to working.

  Elton John

  Clothes, Addiction, Drug

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 1, 2014.

• I was incredibly confident on stage because that's where I loved to be. But offstage, there was no balance. I was a little shy kid that went onstage. And I always said, cocaine was the drug that made me open up. I could talk to people. But then it became the drug that closed me down. So it started out by making me talk to everyone, and then ended up by me isolating myself alone with it; which is the end of the world, really.

  Elton John

  Kids, People, Drug

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I've dodged so many bullets. Not just because of unsafe sex, but because of the amount of drugs I did, the amount of alcohol, the amount of work I was doing. I started the Elton John AIDS Foundation because I got so lucky.

  Elton John

  Sex, Alcohol, Drug

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• If people are encouraged to come out and say they're HIV-positive and they're given their treatments, then obviously, the people who are marginalized - like intravenous drug users, prisoners, people are made to feel less-than - if they're given the support of the government, and they're given the funding, then it's going to help solve the spread of AIDS and HIV in America.

  Elton John

  People, Support, Drug

  Source: www.wbur.org

• Basically, I wanted redemption for the way I lived my life beforehand, and that was the drugs, the drink, the loose sex, whatever.

  Elton John

  Sex, Drug, Redemption

• People still think of AIDS as a shame-based disease, it's a sexually transmitted disease, and you're either gay or you're a prostitute or an intravenous drug user. And so a lot of people are still very bigoted about this disease. It's such a treatable disease. It's so - the end is in sight for this disease, medically.

  Elton John

  Gay, Thinking, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I wasn't involved in anything. I wasn't out - you know, I know I wasn't in ACT UP. I wasn't with Larry Kramer. I wasn't by his side. I wasn't saying what I should do, because, by all accounts, I was a drug addict and an alcoholic. And I was living in a complete bubble of self-absorption.

  Elton John

  Self, Drug, Sides

  "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

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