To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.

To me, that's the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That's the basic, ultimate freedom.

Light shows are sort of a meditative kind of experience, you know. It is not like a shock.

We are not completely autonomous.

Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.

The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.