All any drug amounts to is tweaking the incoming data. You have to be incredibly self-centered or pathetic to be satisfied with simply tweaking the incoming data.

Drugs were absolutely central to that experience, but they weren't essential. I only know that in retrospect. At the time I'm sure I would have said that they …

When did you ever go to a drug dealer, and the drug dealer said, 'you know, you should come back tomorrow, this is not very pure.' It doesn't happen.

The straight world didn't end. The straight world and the other world had bled into one another and produced the world that we live in today.