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.

I was the kid who would take the car out at night when he was 16 and see if he can redline it. And then there's the kid who will be careful of it because it's his dad's car, or whatever, and drive it safely home and go to bed. And that's how my whole life was.

If somebody had come to me and said will you move heroin, I would have told them no.

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.

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

All I can say is that my ambition far exceeded my talent.

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.