I've had so many great experiences in my life, of living total free will, that I wouldn't change it for all the gold in the earth.

In fact, I was welcomed. There were movie stars and rock stars. I became a pot star. I glorified in that. And of course as time wore on the business began to expand and grow. It went from more or less a college fun thing to a serious business. As the money grew, the power grew.

After a while, the cocaine - I didn't have any friends. I was just alone and I didn't even like myself.

Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it.

The official toxicity limit for humans is between one and one and half grams of cocaine depending on body weight. I was averaging five grams a day, maybe more. I snorted ten grams in ten minutes once. I guess I had a high tolerance.

I've had so many great experiences in my life, of living total free will, that I wouldn't change it for all the gold in the earth.

That's a terrible price to pay because you loved life so much, with the intensity of a thousand suns, and the women and all of it - and then it's all taken away from you. You end up walking the hallways of always to a place called tedium and apathy, day after day after day. Years go by.