He’s weary of talking about drugs to the press, ever since a journalist stitched him up by printing casual conversation portrayed as an anti-drugs rant. “It’s great to have a good time obviously, but as time goes on the bad elements far outweigh the good elements,” he remarks, mentioning philosophy as a better way of freeing the mind. Clearly he resents the extent to which the British scene revolves around chemical entertainment. “It doesn’t have anything to do with the music I make at all,” he continues, “I think I’d made the sickest music before I’d even got drunk. It’s got no relation to ‘oh, I took loads of acid and then I started liking and making weird music.’ If you go to Japan you have people there going absolutely wild until eight in the morning on a Monday night, and they are all going straight to work from there. It’s obvious that no one there has had any drugs at all — they still go absolutely crazy to the music. It’s nice because they are totally aware, their reactions are quicker – they can hear exactly what you are doing. You can’t fool them, you can’t use simple tricks and clichés.
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