re: Are musicians forced to give up their lives to drugs in order to become great?

Musicians on drugs have made some awesome music. It boggles the mind that something like Rumours could be made while the performers are gaaked on cocaine. That shite is the anti-creativity drug of all drugs. And that's just of example of many where it's hard to imagine the end result being any better without drugs.

In the immortal words of Bill Hicks, if you don't think drugs have done some good things for us, go home and take all your albums and cds and burn 'em. Because more than likely, the people that made them were real fricking high on something.