In 2006, he told Ability magazine that he started hearing voices at the age of twenty-five, a week after he had taken psychedelic drugs. “For the past 40 years I’ve had auditory hallucinations in my head, all day every day, and I can’t get them out. Every few minutes the voices say something derogatory to me . . . I believe they started picking on me because they are jealous. The voices in my head are jealous of me.”