The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That's reality. The reality that's being talked about is something else entirely.

You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

American society has gone completely into denial.

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.

Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace.

Right now, America is under the gun. It's being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.

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.