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Alex Chilton

"Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did."

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"Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did."

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Eraldo Banovac

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

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Eraldo Banovac

"I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?"

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Eraldo Banovac

"I stayed a virgin until I was 23. I didn't do drugs or drink or smoke."

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Eraldo Banovac

"And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine."

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Eraldo Banovac

"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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Eraldo Banovac

"Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the powers of the universe."

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Eraldo Banovac

"I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends."

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Eraldo Banovac

"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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Eraldo Banovac

"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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Eraldo Banovac

"Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in."

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Alex Chilton
"The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?"

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Alex Chilton
"I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have."

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Alex Chilton
"Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right."

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Alex Chilton
"I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well."

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Alex Chilton
"It's been like a bad dream I never woke from."

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Alex Chilton
"I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember."

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Alex Chilton
"If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction."

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Alex Chilton
"Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did."

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