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.

Any marijuana transaction I ever did with anyone, there were never any guns involved, ever.

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.

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.

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."

Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again, but life goes on.