I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others 'you failed,' you didn't fail.

If anything I consider myself an anarchist.

I'm more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that?

Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!

The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had.

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.