Leary on Drugs & Music

I have a solution to the drug problem. Nobody asked for it but here it is; not less drugs-more drugs. Get more drugs give 'em to the right people. Because every time you read about some famous guy overdosing on drugs, it's always some really talented guy. IT's always like Len Bias or Janis Joplin or Jimi Hendrix or John Belushi, you know what I mean?

The people you want to overdose on drugs never would. Motley Crue would never overdose! You could put them in a room with two tons of crack and they would come out a half hour later screaming, "Rock on!"
"Shit, they're still alive!."
Unfortunately bands like the Crue and the New Kids On The Block would never overdose.

I take music pretty seriously. (pulling up his sleeve) You see that scar on my wrist? Do you know what that's from? I heard the Bee Gees were getting back together again. I couldn't take it, okay? That was the only good thing about the eighties-we got rid of one of the Bee Gees. One down, three to go. That's what I say, folks. Here's ten bucks, bring me the head of Barry Manilow. I want to drink beer out of his empty head. I want to have a Barry Manilow skull-keg party in my apartment, okay? You write the songs, we'll drink beer out of your head. Barry Manilow-that's the U.S. contribution to world culture? You know how he made it? Overweight Catholic girls love Barry. He had a record-signing party in New York last year; there were 1000 overweight Catholic girls outside the record store going,"We love Barry Manilow. He's so cute. He's so sweet. I just want to meet him because I know he'll fall in love with me like I did with him."