Recalling this period, he said, “There’s a quote from Napoleon, which is, ‘Conquest has made me, and conquest will sustain me.’ And so I used to say, ‘Alcohol has made me, and alcohol must sustain me.’ Because everything I did—my hilarity, my lunacy, all the stories, all the crazy things I did—was all just booze-fueled.” One day he woke up and recognized, “I was just sort of overweight and tired.”
