'There
was a lot of anger at what was happening politically. Everyone hated The Bomb,
everyone was afraid to die. I suppose that made people live faster. It made
people look at drugs and it made people look at forms of spirituality as a
possible escape-route from the horror that was building up. We all came out of
that CND liberal ethos and all took different routes. My main schism with the
rest of them was that I began to see it as being very, very destructive. Not
just to me - which it was, but to everybody else. I got very angry with it
because it was a diversion and people were getting damaged. And also in
hindsight of course it looks very much like it was pushed to the underground as
a kind of semi-conspiracy thing. Acid was made very appealing, with a nice PR campaign, and
people got destroyed by it. It blunted the teeth of the so-called 'underground', quite honestly. I don't think that political awareness or even,
for that matter, artistic awareness, is aided by continual drug use. I'm not
saying that you shouldn't have the odd joint and relax, or have the odd pint
down the pub. But you can't build a revolution on it. You can't even build one
in your mind. I was very suspicious of Leary and all those people. They had
dodgy connections. I wouldn't have trusted them with a bag of peas. I didn't
buy those people. I think they did more damage than good.'
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