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As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions.

The 'Friday sessions' refer to something that you're not paid for and not supposed to do during your professional life. Curiosity-driven research. Something random, simple, maybe a bit weird - even ridiculous. Without it, there are no discoveries.

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to me, a session musician is a guy who makes his living in the studio, and I never really did that.

I probably shouldn't treat interviews as therapy sessions, but I don't keep a diary, so these end up being my way of keeping track of where I'm at and letting it all out.

I was coming off of a lot of psyche meds and other things.

I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.

I did loads of sessions with Andrew Oldham.

I enjoyed every minute of what I was doing with sessions, because The Blossoms, the group that I was singing with, they were the first black background singers. There weren't any.