I think it's silly for anyone to think you could write under the influence, but if they'd like to think that, I'd like to keep the legend alive. Maybe I was under the influence when I wrote Jesus' Son and I just didn't know it.
They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.
Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.