We have receptors in our brain as you well know and when you ingest marijuana, I believe that it essentially gives you a reboot.

There is an intelligence factor that works with the spoken word. With words, you have to understand meaning and nuances and things like that. You have to be able to relate...but with music it's just music.

People didn't relate to me as being Chinese or white, just being a hippie, a long-haired hippie.

Just the thought of anything Hawaiian gets me high! I appreciate the good cannabis that people have spent years perfecting but I also enjoy the cheap stuff. I guess you could say I like it all.

I'm dancing tango, and I'm playing golf, and I'm quite active, you know, and for my age and everything, and what I've gone through, I'm very happy.

Cheech [Marine] on the other hand, met [Barack] Obama and he knew right away who Cheech was. So that should tell you something.

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.