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"All audiences should be slightly off balance."
Audience
"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
"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."
Achievement
"There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now."
Now
"I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands."
Music
"The best thing you've got going for you is individuality."
Individuality
"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."
Music
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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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"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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"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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"I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke."
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"Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?"
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"But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to."
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"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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"I'm very fond of drugs."
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"Drugs are a bet with your mind."
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"I was never a rah-rah person. I never sold drugs or did anything crazy."
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