Culture Quote by Zachary Cole Smith

“California was a great place to get over mysticism in the 1960s and 1970s. Such an endless parade of gurus and mystics came through,…

— Stewart Brand

I wasn't taking so many drugs that it was messing up my creative processes. It was a very good period, 1968 - there was…

— Mick Jagger

When I lived in Seattle and Oregon, we partied, which is a large reason I don't know drugs or alcohol now because I saw…

— Meredith Brooks

The environment of San Francisco has so much history to it that I really appreciate. Musically, socially, and culturally. There's this new culture of…

— GRiZ

Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now.

— Boy George

I did LSD and peyote in the late Sixties, before I got into cocaine. That was concurrent with my change from a straight comic…

— George Carlin

Drugs took me to places; they were like portals. It's kind of a cliché, but they were like portals to altered states of consciousness…

— Anne Lamott

Moving to San Francisco affected me in a pretty profound way, in a lot of respects. I think it helped me evolve my sound…

— Tycho

I grew up in Baltimore which is a one of the biggest drug cities. I've seen a lot of drugs... so it was always…

— Mario

It was just me in my basement honing my skills, hearing songs on the radio and trying to manipulate them and then writing over…

— Clinton Sparks

When I think about the real pioneers of the psychedelic movement in a musical sense, not just the culture, everything had a handmade sort…

— Chris Robinson

Well, when it comes to inspiration, I come from San Diego originally - it's an un-media-hyped, sleepy sort of town, big on beach culture…

— Gary Jules