I hope there's a life after life - and maybe I can even come back again and get on another train, and ride and gain some more wisdom.

I thought heroin was evil and morally, myself, I thought that pot was okay. That it wasn't a bad thing and so therefore thought I wasn't doing a bad thing. I knew I was breaking the law but I thought that the law was wrong also. So I morally justified what I was doing.

People don't grow up to become thrill junkies - they're born like that.

I thought cocaine was a fantastic drug. A wonder drug, like everybody else. It gave you [an] energy burst. You could stay awake for days on end, and it was just marvelous and I didn't think it was evil at all.

Life's a rodeo and all you have to do is stay in the saddle.

Strange thing, when they arrested me for the pot, the federal agents, they said, "We're sorry, we really don't want to bust pot people but this is tied into a heroin operation and we have to arrest you."

Nixon wasn't really considered the president by the youth of America. He was considered to be a fraud and which he proved himself to be.