It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I've done.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

It's not a date. We're just agreeing to eat at the same table.

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.

I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?

I'd take out a joint and light it. First, just faking it. Then I started lighting live joints, passing them around to the band, you know. I was great, it relieved all my tensions. And I ended up with the greatest supply of grass ever. Other acts up and down the Strip heard about what I was doing - Little Anthony and the Imperials, people like that - and started sending me the best dope in the world. I never ran out.