How many whales do we really need? I figure five. One for each ocean.

Everyone's got skeletons in their closet, and I've got a million in mine, believe me. I tested the envelope; I pushed it. Whenever somebody in authority told me not to do something, I did it just to find out why they said not to do it.

I would never do crack... I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass, okay?

I love Santa Monica and Venice because I like the beach. I have a lot of friends in that area.

I always hated the Grateful Dead. Never even bought a Led Zeppelin album.

We didn't have rehab back in the Seventies. Back in the Seventies, rehab meant you stopped doing coke, but you kept smoking pot and drinking for a couple more weeks.

The best pitch I ever heard about cocaine was back in the early eighties when a street dealer followed me down the sidewalk going: I got some great blow man. I got the stuff that killed Belushi.