by “I like to keep busy,” says the legendary artist and producer.
“For a while back there in the ‘70s, drugs seemed to work for me,” laughs Todd Rundgren. “It’s strange really because, up until the age of 21, I had completely avoided drugs and alcohol. Drugs and beer turned musicians into morons, so I figured I’d be the one to stay sober.
“Then, a med student friend introduced me to cannabis… and a guy dropped off a shoebox full of peyote tabs. I wasn’t taking these things to escape from life, I took them because they helped me understand how my brain worked. I seemed to be more effective, I could understand why my mind was constantly leaping from this idea to this idea. Problems became easier to solve because I could see them in the distance before they arrived. I was already prepared.
“Today, I suppose you’d call it microdosing. I was just getting to the point where things were starting to happen but life around me went on as normal. I gigged, I rehearsed, I wrote and recorded; I even managed to rewire part of the studio I was working in. Having said that, some of the music I made at the time was quite experimental.”
