I started going [Grateful Dead] when I was in high school. I was 15. It was the Summer Of Love.

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player. I am a better person because of my failures and disgraces.

Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.

Music is my life. It's inseparable from anything else that I do.

Yao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside and out. The vision, the creativity, the gentleness of spirit … he has it all.

I hate to say anything that may hurt UCLA, but I can't be quiet when I see what the NCAA is doing to Jerry Tarkanian only because he has a reputation for giving a second chance to many black athletes other coaches have branded as troublemakers. The NCAA is working night and day trying to get Jerry, but no one from the NCAA ever questioned me during my four years at UCLA!

You look at Vladimir Radmanovic, this guy is cut from stone. As if Michelangelo was reading and a lightening bolt flashed before him.