Grass probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer. When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are. But, on the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way.

First I was a mimic. Practically from the moment I began talking, I did impersonations of the people in my neighborhood - the storekeepers, the policemen, my teachers.

Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky.

If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we could wind up with nine-day weekends.

It was the typical paranoid experience [to hide coke]. As soon as I knew my hiding place, I thought the whole world knew it. I'd write clues to my hiding places in code, then forget the code and spend the rest of the day looking for my coke.

I never joined the Boy Scouts. I don't trust any organization that has a handbook.

I'm kinda like herpes, I just keep coming back.