Issue date: 3/6/08 Section: The Weekly

Bret: A lot of people think we must get high and then write songs.

Jemaine: Which we don't. But I do like stoner comedy, even though I don't really like drugs. (mumbles with Bret) I can say that. I know it's not cool to say that.

Bret: It's not that we don't like them, it's that we don't use them.

Jemaine: I don't like them. I don't like the idea of them. But, I do love a lot of drug influenced things - like Jimi Hendrix's music, Cheech and Chong's comedy.

Bret: I don't use drugs, but I'm a big fan of alternative realities.

Jemaine: I grew up around drugs, and that put me off to them.

Bret: I grew up with drugs a little bit, but then I gave up. I was out of control.

Jemaine: My dad was a big hippie, and he used to grow marijuana plants. And we used to go out to the country, down into these forests, and anyway, the concern was the police would be around - I think right then I decided I'd never do drugs and I still haven't.

Bret: Jemaine still has a problem with the cops. He doesn't trust the po'.

Jemaine: Even though I don't do anything illegal.

Jemaine: Once when I was young, I graffitied my own toilet at home, in pencil. It said something about how "The Pigs Suck" or something like that and my mom was screaming, "who wrote 'The Pigs Suck' on the toilet? " It rubbed off. Fortunately, it was in pencil. It was a lonely rebellion against the police force.

Bret: Yeah, pretty underground.

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