Westerberg/Replacements on moderation and why it doesn't work
I found this quote the other day in an interview with Paul Westerberg, who was in the Replacements. For those who don't know, they were an 80s/90s rock band that was well known for performing drunk. Needless to say, the alcoholism eventually caught up with Paul and, without making a big production about it, he stopped drinking. This quote is from when he was confronted after relapsing while on tour a couple years ago that I thought was a good assessment of the futility of trying to "moderate" drinking:
"If you ever fool yourself into moderation as an option, it prolongs it but it doesn’t cure it. I was like, ‘I’ll have two glasses of wine.’ Then it turned into every night and suddenly my head is a little foggy and I’m not thinking as straight as I used to. It creeps up on ya.”