With the recognition comes additional responsibility, because then we're no longer a one-shot. We're now part of the environment.

Sometimes you have to be clever.

It's a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things. If you want to separate the two, the thing you do is make drugs legal. Accept the reality that people do want to change their consciousness, and make an effort to make safer, healthier drugs.

You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.

Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.

I recognize that as a musician there is a certain chauvinism attached to it, which is the thing of, "I spent my time learning how to play. You didn't spend time learning how to play, therefore, you are not a musician."