Addiction Quote by Brad Paisley

When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised…

— Valerie June

Unfortunately I've been to jail a couple times. Anytime I come in it's difficult to make music, write songs.

— Gucci Mane

I went to jail at 17. While I was there, I discovered that I could write. Once I started making some songs, other inmates…

— Jay IDK

I was on drugs when I wrote some of my songs. It was a rough time for me, but I'm lucky enough to be…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

— John Mayer

I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't.

— Stephen King

Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different…

— Paul Westerberg

I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a…

— Dan Rather

I started to play the guitar for a couple of years, which was fun. I still bring it out once in a while, could…

— Dirk Nowitzki

After school, instead of going into the restaurant scene, I very consciously took my guitar around everywhere I could, to Irish pubs and restaurants,…

— Nick Gehlfuss

The moment I wrote my first song, I got addicted.

— Kiesza

I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.

— Jonny Lang