Singer-songwriter Guy Garvey said he would drink endlessly thinking the intoxicated feeling allowed him to pen better tracks easily.
The 41-year-old Elbow frontman, said he used to think alcohol helped his career but now realises some of his best work was penned while he was sober, reported The Guardian.
"I'm ashamed to say I could polish off a bottle without a problem. I could have this conversation after a bottle of scotch. I used to think booze helped me write. It doesn't at all. I used to convince myself it was a necessary part," Garvey said.
However, the singer, who recently released his debut solo album, has realised that he works much better when in senses.
"The drinking was all part of the garret, the romance of the swinging lightbulb, the dedicating my life to unpaid art idea. Tortured in my 20s all part of that," he said.
