Steven Tyler talks to GQ Magazine
Creating While Clean
BY CHRIS HEATH
“What happens with using is: It works in the beginning, but it doesn't work in the end.”
—Steven Tyler
Steven Tyler, Julien Baker, Ben Harper, Jason Isbell, Joe Walsh, and other sober musicians on how to thrive creatively without drugs or booze.
This is a story about sober musicians—about the life that has led them here, and about the life that they live now—but there is no single story here.
Some drank, some used drugs, some did more or less everything, and they did so to very different degrees. Some found themselves at the edge of the precipice, or worse; others simply re-routed from a path or trajectory that they came to see as unwise. Some were clean before the end of their teenage years; some only surfaced into sobriety much later in their lives. Some created the work that made them first or best known before they were sober; some have done so since. Some see significant correlations here; some don’t.
Read full story here: https://www.gq.com/story/clean-musicians
Photo by: Ryan Pfluger