“I couldn’t go on living like this. I had to become successful. “I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I’m dead, and then more afterward.” And at this juncture I was finally willing to do whatever it was going to take to bring that about – up to and including giving up drugs. From that moment on, I really did take things, in the textbook rehab fashion, one day at a time. An.”
