Hallucinogens are a value changer...like it or not, it changes your values, it opens up windows (doors of perception.)

There's some invisible guy, up in the sky, who can kill you, because he loves you.

When I got out of high school they retired my jersey, but it was for hygiene and sanitary reasons.

I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around in a tough neighborhood. It was common to curse, you make your point. It's a very effective language. I try not to overdo it. It's never to shock. I know where it fits, it's never to shock. There's no shock value left in words.

I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I see them as symbols, and I leave them to the symbol-minded.

Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively.

Once the high priests and the traders took over, we were lost as a species.