Band Quote by Brian Welch

“Things began to go wrong when I was seventeen. My band’s twenty-year-old lead guitarist earned seven years in jail for a drug-fuelled spree of…

— Mark Rice

When I finally got sober, I moved towards what I might have been if I hadn't been destroying myself when I was young.

— Mary Gauthier

When I became sober, I was 27 and struggling as an artist.

— Shawn Colvin

Once I got to an age where I was old enough to make my own decisions, I quit everything and did what I actually…

— Taylor Momsen

I was always the type of person, and still am the type of person, that I cannot be creative and use substances. So from…

— Macklemore

At sixteen I was like: "I need to get an album out now!" - even though I was only sixteen. I was always in…

— Brooke Fraser

Now I'm grown up and playing in a band.

— Ray Davies

I was always mature for my age.

— Soon-Yi Previn

I got sober when I was 22 years old.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I stopped drinking a few years ago, and drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it…

— Robert Wyatt

When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for…

— K. Flay

I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug…

— Macklemore