"Yes, whereas most civilized people believe it (drug-taking)...

«Yes, whereas most civilized people believe it (drug-taking) to be in some sense ‘immoral’, I consider it futile
and unnecessary, since chemical stimulation is not needed for a sense of well-being, for artistic
illumination, imagination, a sense of forward movement in one’s life. We have it within
ourselves to enter the sorts of states of mind that drugs are supposed to make possible. Now I’m not denying, of course, that some great artists have used drugs; but no one can write, or paint, or
compose music, while on drugs or intoxicants. You have to stop in order to create; but if you can
stop, you didn’t need to start in the first place. On the other hand, many people can’t stop, and
for them creativity is impossible. So, on my view, for the truly creative person drugs are
unnecessary, if not a positive hindrance, whilst for the uncreative person they are pointless, and
will never supply their creative lack.

In my view, drug-taking is, in a way, the anti-creativity of uncreative people, people who don’t
have a song or a poem in them, but who think they can share in the creative experience by
artificially altering their state of mind. Only about ten per cent of people are really concerned
with creativity, with moving forward, transcending supposed limitations on human achievement.»

-Jonathan Bowden, Apocalypse TV