It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

The remark balances indulgence with self-command. “Letting yourself go” suggests surrendering to impulse—partying, passion, risk, or emotional abandon—often associated with rock-star mythology. The qualifying clause, “as long as you can get yourself back,” reframes that abandon as acceptable only when paired with the capacity to recover: to regain discipline, identity, health, or moral footing. The line implies that freedom without the ability to return becomes self-destruction, while controlled excess can be a form of release. It also hints at resilience as a skill: the real measure is not whether one falls into chaos, but whether one can reassemble a coherent self afterward.