When you realize that there's a name and a description for this condition that you thought was insanity, you've identified the problem, and now you can do something about it.

Well, I get excited about music.

I think dying is the ultimate high...

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.

It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling over, it was all about the shortcut. My whole life I took the shortcut, and I ended up lost.

Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt and saw the existence of a creative intelligence in this universe, of a loving power larger than myself in nature, in people, everywhere.