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"Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it."
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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 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."
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"I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people."

"I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that."

"I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame."

"Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think."

"I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear."

"Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it."
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