Drugs

I don't see the point of them.

But the sad part is the world might be worse off without them. The Beatles wouldn't have been quite as good without them. A great number of things in the art industry wouldn't be quite as good without them. But I am quite certain I will never ever take them.

As good as the music is and the books are that were produced because of drugs...I still consider it cheating. If an author takes drugs and writes about a hallucination he saw...I think if writing were a game, that would definitely be cheating.

If you can't produce a good piece of creative writing without drugs, you should either practice or give up. Now that doesn't mean I don't listen or read things that were the product of drugs. I respect the fact that it's good but it's still, in the back of my mind, cheating.

And unfortunately, something I hate, a lot of artists who didn't do drugs or show no evidence of drug usage get written up as drug users because they created something great.

I feel like every time some great movie or book comes out SOMEONE just HAS to ask "what were they on?" ... this upsets me.

Dr. Seuss is one such case. There is 0 proof that he did drugs. He drank and he smoked. That's about it. He showed his creative style and way of thinking from his CHILDHOOD. That's just the way he was! Unless there is solid proof that he did drugs, he didn't do them and that was just how powerful and great his imagination was.

I believe in the power of creating something great with your own mind and no outside influences like that, other than things that truly inspire you. To me, it's simply more pure. It's better. And, I think it would certainly be more satisfying.

If you're sick and you medically need drugs like that to get better, fine. Whatever.

And alcohol is something different. I personally have no immediate plans to drink. The world would certainly be worse off without it. I think it's silly that it would be, but it's true. Whatever. Without alcohol there would be no Edgar Allen Poe or, while I mentioned him, Dr. Seuss. An exceptionally larger amount of people drink than do drugs. So to me it's a "if you want to do that, fine. Whatever floats your boat." sort of thing.

So yeah. That's my opinion about that. It's a very debatable topic. There are all kinds of exceptions and circumstances. But in the end, I think if you want to do that...fine. It's not my life. But if you're an artist, I think you're cheating. And in my mind you don't get punished for that. But you cheated. Feel a little guilty.