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"All audiences should be slightly off balance."
Audience
"To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity."
Bravery
"I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do."
Drugs
"Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise."
Cheating
"I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible."
Effort
"It's amazing what some people read into songs."
People
"I try to make songs visual and tactile to kind of put you into the action."
Action
"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
Artist
"You want the audience to be uncomfortable."
Want
"The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records."
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"Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important."
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Personal Development
"I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know."
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Personal Development
"Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs."
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Personal Development
"It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs... we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics."
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Personal Development
"I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke."
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Personal Development
"Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?"
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Personal Development
"But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to."
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Personal Development
"I can meet any producer in Hollywood and look them in the eye, knowing I didn't sleep with them, or do drugs with them."
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Personal Development
"I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit."
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Personal Development
"I'm very fond of drugs."
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Personal Development
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