In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.

I think I might have been stupid in some respects, it if weren't for my psychedelic experiences.

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

And all I knew about drugs was what I read in magazines like Time and Life. I learned that marijuana was a dangerous addictive drug and that I should stay away from it.

I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.

There are a lot of people for whom psychedelics have been really beneficial. But I wouldn't recommend it to everyone. Some are just not ready but society would benefit from letting people who are ready for psychedelics have legal acces to them.

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.