Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.
When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that is by making opportunities and paying decent wages.
When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.
But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to.
Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
Every other day there's something - I'm dealing drugs, I'm starving people. I have never done a drug in my life.
The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.