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Paul Williams

lines on the record: 39
first: 2018-01-08
most recent: 2018-01-08
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“The big amigo is home. The big amigo is just its home, it's where it's all the, you know, I love the Dalai Lama's saying that his religion is kindness. It's the elegance of kindness manifest in this power that is there for all of us.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We're not alone. you're not alone, no matter where you are, no matter what you're dealing with I love the line if you're praying for more faith, you've got enough. I love that. I love that. Think that that's the essence of comfort for me in this whole deal is that I found a real higher power when I got sober.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When Philip Seymour Hoffman I was devastated, but at this point, because he was 20. Years. Exactly. I'll be 25 in March. But I think at this point I'm salient towards the light right now. And I wouldn't trade that for anything.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no. I am stunned by their loss, and I am stunned at how fortunate I am. I don't think that I feel that, you know, I know that a couple drinks or a drink, and I could start down that path.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If I'm recovered, then I have nothing left to learn, nothing left. I mean, that is a closed chapter of my life. And the fact is that I will sit and learn from the newest, youngest, most beaten up little attic that wanders into a room and shares his story. I will learn something from him and I will have a breath of life ensuring my story with him that I've never experienced before.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And Next Life, I'm going to be that evolved where I actually do that nonstop. But the fact is that there's an element in so many of our, you know, that little fear-based thinking at key moments in our life. Why do I get nervous before I walk on stage? Why would I ever be afraid about anything?”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That starts chewing on the wires, and you've got to back off and go, wait a minute, are you nuts? I'm going to sit down with Tracy and Oprah. Ah, back. But it happens to all of us.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a long process. I learned a little of it this morning, you know, because I ought to tell you in the shower this morning, this was going to be a disaster. I just wasn't, you know,”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, my favorite line of the song is Who said that every wish would be heard and answered if wished on the morning star, somebody thought of that. Did someone believed it? Look what it's done so far. The essence of my own spiritual philosophy is probably in those words right there. Somebody thought of that and someone believed it. You know, thoughts become things. Thoughts become things.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is. I wrote it with Kenny Asher for, you know, you know your life is on track when you hit that alarm clock in the morning and you realize you're going to go to work with Kermit that day. You're going to spend the day with Jim Hanson. Amazing spirit, you know, and I think that sometimes you're around somebody of a certain spiritual level. Did they raise you that there is an energy with somebody like Jim Henson who is you have a relationship with them and just their essence?”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“President and Chairman of ASCA. And then this whole thing with Daft Punk this year just says, you know, what 74-year-old Wenzelma the year?”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I lost a decade. You know you're an alcoholic when you misplace a decade. It's flat out, you know? Yeah. But to be where I am in my life today, to be working, I work for ASCAP, which is, you know, the American Society composing.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I turned into the Palai Lama. I mean, I went to, I was in the Palai Lama. Come touch the hem. I will get you sober. It's like I loved it. I dragged people off bar stools to share it with them. I loved it. It's just, for the first time in my life, I felt absolutely useful.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, it's one of the gifts of recovery. You're taught that right away. You get to keep the miracle by giving it away. You get to kill. And the thing is that there's something about that process that speaks to ego because we all want to be a bit of a teacher. We all want to, well, I know a little something that you don't know yet, and I'm going to share it with you. Well, the brilliance of that is that while I'm sharing it with you, especially in the early stages of my recovery, I'm reaffirming something that I come to believe in.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, it was and remains an absolute gift. But I think that, again, it's you medicate, you play around with this crap, it gets out of control, you lose control of your life, but somewhere underneath it all is a soul. It is a spirit. And it has perhaps lifetimes of choices that have honed that spirit. And I think that deep down inside there is a part of me that is absolutely grateful and totally believes that this immense power, I mean, that's the connection. I see you ask people what is soul. That's the connection to me. That's the connection to the beer. And it's our soul. It's not. That's where I stop being alone. That's our soul. That's where I connect to God. That's where I connect to Holy Spirit. That's where I'm one, where you and I are one. Yeah.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Really? The thing is that the gift of my addiction is that it forced me to either going to die or you're going to get help. And when getting help was important enough for me to let go of ego and do it. I began to connect. And that connection, that brought me to life. You know, I think that what amazes me is that in the midst of my drinking and using, that there was a spiritual life there and the proof of it, I'm happy to say, is in the songs. Sometimes we're a channel. Sometimes things pass through us.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My friends were gone because one of the elements of addiction is isolation. So many friends were gone. I was really good at, you know, I went from Carson's couch to peeking out the Venetian blinds, looking for the tree police at three in the morning because I was isolating. I didn't know how to be around people. As a sober person. Well, no, this is drinking and using.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Authenticity. Enough. Sat down with Tracy to write this book, and I feel, and she never for a moment stopped being Tracy. She started going, I know you need to do more of this, you need, well, she dared to tell me what I needed to hear. Authenticity is an amazing gift.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Around my children I do I regret that I wasn't there before them, and yet. There are moments with Sarah and Nicole where the lights go on and we connect in a way that I think neither of us have ever experienced before, which then they are magnificently forgiving and loving, I don't want to give the impression that I have evolved out of this. I mean, two years ago, Tracy and I had dinner with my son Cole. And as she points out, I was reaching for the check, asking for the check during the appetizers. She said, stay in the moment, sit with your son. All he wants is a relationship with you. And, you know, and she was right. I mean, but if you don't ever want to.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think I'm not sure. I'm not sure because in a lot of ways I never hit a financial bottom. If you talk to my kids, all bottoms are difficult. All of them that were around me, they would have a very different interpretation of how far close to my bottom I got. Because for my children who never had a father there for them when he needed to be there, they saw a real bottom.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So we put a prayer circle together for you, a bunch of alcoholics in Oklahoma City. And two weeks later in a blackout, I called a doctor. It's somebody whispering to us one more time. One more time.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'll tell you exactly what it was. And I won't cry. I did an event in Oklahoma City where I had a full tilt psychotic meltdown. I mean, I thought I was being beaten up by a monster. I'd been up maybe two or three nights without sleep. I was drinking and using Had this full tilt. I mean, they had to cancel the show and I went back to LA and I drank for two more weeks. And then a blackout I called a doctor at 10 years sobriety. I met this gentleman in Nashville. I found out that he was also sober, that he was in recovery. And he pulled out a chip for 17 years. I was 10 years sober at the time. And I saw this, and this is what kills me. I said, what did you do when you saw me so, so beaten up and so near death? He said, oh, we were terrified what we did is we put together a prayer circle for you.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For everything that has ever happened in my life, the good and the bad, and you roll it into your life. If you're in a car wreck, you're grateful that nobody was hurt. If they're hurt, you're grateful that they didn't die. If they die, you're grateful for the chance you had to know them. It's an expandable gratitude one size fits all. Put it in your heart and use it”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When you But it's for so many years to hide my responsibility back to the, you know, I learned from my mistakes is, you know, I became a chronic and habitual liar to hide my addiction, to hide my behavior. And that's exhausting, Oprah. That's exhausting.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, what you could do is if you can't make that direct adjustment to somebody to go to them and say, you know, there is mud on your carpeting and it's from my boots. And I'd like to clean it up. That person may be gone. So you can decorate your life with acts of kindness in other directions with other people. You can be a sweeter person. And you can, I mean, to me, I feel if I'm doing something that would appear to be an act of kind is I feel as if I'm being suddenly useful. I feel just my own chemistry.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Big amigo. I call him the big amigo because. Before I walk on stage, I give it up. Because I'll get scared before I walk on stage. There could be 18 people out there, you know, and as I walk on the stage, I say, I don't know how to do this, but something inside me does.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that probably is immense, I think, because it allows you to comfortably put on the jacket of change. Tracy writes a lot about relationships where you're in a revolving door relationship where you're fighting back and forth, back and forth. That person may never change. But if I had the capacity to respond to them in a different fashion, I'm capable of changing the dynamics of the relationship.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But the reward for that is incomparable to the reward of talking to another alcoholic and knowing that we're both giving each other added breath, added life in the exchange of recognizing a higher power, working through both of us in this moment. I have never felt more useful in my life. I would not trade a day of this for all of that.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I know, I know. And you're walking on that stage and you're looking out, there's Kirk Douglas, there's Burt Lancaster, there's all these people that are these iconic greats. And it's someplace back inside all the charm and all the wit and all the art I just wonderful up here on the stage is a little piece of poly that goes, you don't belong here. So you drink.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“All the romantic beginnings of a bank commercial. Crocker Bank, you've got a long way to go. We'd like to help you get to the Crocker Bank. Roger Nichols and I expanded it as a complete song and never in our wildest dreams imagined it would be a hit and then an angel sang it and when Karen Carpenter sings your songs, you are.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sometimes there are angels of change that come swooping into our lives. Sometimes they suggest you write a book, sometimes they say pick up that guitar. Wow. Yeah, I just, when I was a kid, I listened to the great American songbook.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was 49 years old. You know, it's progressive disease. I don't know when I crossed that magical line from use to abuse to addiction. Somewhere along in the late 70s, the 70s were so productive for me. In the 80s, I was hiding. I joke that I did 49 tonight shows, I remember six. And I went from that and all that attention to hiding out in my bedroom.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Can't imagine a personal life who hasn't said it at one point. Is my last cigarette, my last purchase, my last We've all said it. We've all said my last time I have it drink, the last time I go. Every human being in the world makes this That's addict That is I have to go back for more, even though Conscious self, my intelligent self is telling me this is bad for me”
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“I have a shopping problem. Think that Numb ourselves Paul just said it's so true that Push the pain away in certain ways.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It closed off the bone, so it made me shorter. It might be shorter. It also messed up my body clock, so I'm in a high school when I haven't hit puberty yet. Didn't hit puberty until I was like early 20s. So, yeah, so I'm different. And I feel different. And what's interesting is that I was five years sober before I felt what that felt like Because long before I drank alcoholically, I acted alcoholically, and that meant I didn't feel what was uncomfortable to feel.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You go from being this weird little guy, given shots to grow when I was like nine years old, it had the opposite effect. It didn't slow my body clock down, didn't hit. You were given shots.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And doing cocaine. A ton of cocaine. A ton of cocaine. You know, alcohol made me feel big enough to deal with the rest of the world. Cocaine made me feel like I could shoot basketball for money. It's an old market, but it's the absolute truth.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's been the most remarkable just to be sitting here today at this moment. For us, this is a remarkable, remarkable gift.”
2018-01-08 · Oprah's Super Soul · Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson: A Better You Through Trust and Gratitude · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To the rest of the world. You know, in sobriety. Your knees, and you say, I don't know what I'm doing, and I desperately need help when you reach out and say, help me to somebody, and you let go of ego and you go, I'm desperate and I'm dying. With the world on a level that is so wonderfully intimate and”
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