Ian Anderson: “Never taken drugs to encourage the creative process”

The leader of Jethro Tull Ian Anderson In an interview granted to Contact Music he said he has never taken drugs to encourage his creative artistic process.

During the chat with the British newspaper he explained: “My instinct tells me that drinking and drugs do not help the creative process.

People are without safety or simply affected by the writer’s block. Perhaps it is like a bomb that breaks a dam, which opens the dam, a wave of creativity. Maybe it works for some people, but I don’t need something that makes me move forward creatively, to write texts or music. When it seems the right time to do it, it comes in running, takes impetus and is unstoppable “.

The 77 -year -old Scottish musician is aware of the fact that this position could have earned him the reputation of Bacchettone, but says that he simply did not want to abandon himself to the party side of the world of music. “Probably some other artists we worked with have thought that I was a bit of a piece of shit, detached and not very friendly. But it was not so, I had a huge respect and admiration for them as musicians. Only I didn’t want to devote myself to the out of service of rock and roll”.

THE Jethro Tull they have just released the new album “Curious Ruminant” And Anderson insists that he could not imagine trying to work as a producer with an artist made of drugs. Referring to his friend, who passed away in 2016, George Martinwho worked with the Beatles On all their albums, Ian Anderson He reflected: “I guess George found rather difficult to stay in a study with the Beatles, that it was only to smoke reeds or, later, LSD or other. I guess he found him a little frustrating, because he, like me, was a respectable”.

In addition to Martin, during the interview, he also mentioned Frank Zappaanother rock star who has never had to deal with drugs. “He is the only other person I know, in addition to me, of which I can be quite safe, anecdotically, who has never taken what is commonly called drugs. But he smoked like a chimney, which I did too.”

But Ian Anderson Have you ever had the temptation to try drugs? The answer is quite clear: “I always thought that one day, I will not waste time, I will spend directly on the morphine. There is a 50 percent probability that I will spend my last moments in this life under the soothing effect of a class A drug to remove or relieve the pain of cancer at the terminal stage. If it is as good as people say it is drugs, maybe I will try to write a song, to see if it works.”