Aberration Quote by Carl Hart

I think about my cocaine use. I liked it. I thought it was a great drug. But I knew that if I was doing…

— Carl Hart

I felt that to do this drug, I had to become someone totally different than I was. I had to compromise my integrity, my…

— Kelli White

I also had my own addiction to cocaine and heroin in my 20s. I knew that it was driven not by the things that…

— Maia Szalavitz

I was snorting a lot of cocaine and I had lost myself to a great degree. A lot of people, everybody was starting to…

— George Jung

I brought something back from those experiences [with drugs] which made me softer, open to other ideas. And I've learned from listening to other…

— Joe Rogan

The key to me recovering from drug addiction was figuring out why I was so upset and why I hated myself so much. I…

— Oliver Sykes

I started doing cocaine to get through interviews, 'cause people wanted to know a lot about my personal life and I wasn't prepared for…

— Kid Cudi

I think a lot of people who were addicts are actually people who had that strong innate need to experience non-ordinary states of consciousness.…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

I wasn't accepted because I didn't accept the drug culture that most of my peers were involved in. Now it's like a locked room.

— Nancy Sinatra

At least for me personally, drugs aren't an essential part of having a surreal experience, or what you might call a higher experience.

— Panda Bear

I believe I accepted the first hit of crack because I am an addict, and that's what addicts do. There was nothing extraordinary going…

— Ruben Castaneda

I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine.

— Sam Lipsyte