Jefferson Airplane singer Grace Slick spoke about what it was like to be a rock star in the '60s in a recent interview with Uncut magazine.
"The only thing you couldn't do was kill people," the 80-year-old artist said of her '60s lifestyle. "Everything else was acceptable."
"You're being paid to travel around the world, and people admire you because you're a rock 'n' roll star," she added. "You're young, you're relatively healthy. Trust me, you're not trying to kill yourself - you're just having fun."
Although she is deeply sad to have lost contemporaries of the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin to drug overdoses, Slicks admits she never considered that the same might happen to her at the time.
"I'm stupid," she said. "I always thought when these people died, it wasn't going to be me. But that turned out to be true. Fortunately, I enjoyed every trip I had."
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