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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."

"Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important."

"And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem."

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

"If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them."

"When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing."
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"If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music."

"When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it."

"I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage."

"Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen."
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