Stephen Stills Says He Has His 'Original Personality Back' Three Years After Getting Sober at 77

Mar. 15, 2025

Stephen Stills attends the Pre-GRAMMY Gala & GRAMMY Salute to Industry Icons Honoring Julie Greenwald and Craig Kallman on February 04, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.Photo:Lester Cohen/Getty Images for The Recording Academy

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RockerStephen Stillsis three years sober — and never better.

Decades later, Stills hasn’t touched substances in three years, and toldRolling Stonein a new interview that he’s rediscovered himself in the process.

“I’m really comfortable in sobriety. It gets me back to the kid I was before this madness started, pretty affable and friendly,” he said. “Things were so special at the beginning of my career before I sold a single record. But when you add poison into that mix… I’m just glad I have my original personality back.”

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“When we first started there were no egos. I think that came from all the cocaine we snorted. That’s what brought egos into it. There were an enormous amount of drugs being taken,” Nash told theGuardianin 2022. “I’d get high in the morning and snort in the afternoon and I’d keep going till 3-4 a.m… We may have been able to make more music if we’d not been quite so stoned.”

Stills has stayed busy in the years since, and released a joint album withex Judy Collins, who inspired the hit “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” in 2017. He retired from touring after the two hit the road together in 2018, but has continued to play select gigs.

In January, Stills and Nash reunited to sing “Teach Your Children” at theFireAid benefit concertin Los Angeles, and he also performed Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth” with Dawes and Mike Campbell.

“It felt like putting on an old shoe again,” Stills toldRolling Stoneof performing with Nash. “We just fell into it, and there it was. And the pleasure of playing with those kids made it even more special. I don’t see [Nash] a lot since he lives on the East Coast, but it was great to see my old pal.”

The star also revealed that he’s currently working on a memoir, and “going one word at a time.”

“I’m puttering with the book,” he said. “I’ve found that the more things change, the more things stay the same. And I must say, it’s a lot easier doing this now that I’m sober.”

source: people.com