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"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."

"I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight."

"I still don't know anything about drugs, or who takes them, or what happens."

"I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS."

"I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs."

"I don't have to say 'Rap it up' every two seconds, or 'Don't do drugs' every two seconds. They know they're not supposed to use drugs, and they know they're supposed to put a condom on."
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"I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing."

"When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it."

"Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise."

"People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences."

"The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records."
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