After a while, the cocaine - I didn't have any friends. I was just alone and I didn't even like myself.
The war on drugs was an ideology the government came up with, and there never really was a war on drugs. I mean, to stop the importation of drugs into the United States of America is an impossibility.
Basically I was no different than a rock star or a movie star. I was a coke star.
Life's a rodeo and all you have to do is stay in the saddle.
People don't grow up to become thrill junkies - they're born like that.
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."