We survived Nixon and Reagan and George Bush, and so we can survive anything that comes along.

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.

The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.

I am off all the cancer meds. Energy is a bit low but other than that, I feel really good.

The good thing about poverty is it keeps you from getting in trouble because if you can't afford drugs, people will stop giving them to you very quickly. So, being poor really helps - it's the success that kills you.

By making marijuana illegal, the agricultural people can't grab hold of it like they did with corn and wheat. So those companies are scrambling around trying to get hold of it, but they can't, because it's a cottage industry, and it will always be a cottage industry. Because the minute the big companies try to make it their own, like they did with soybeans...like Monsanto, they put their own patent on seeds, and you can't do that with marijuana.

Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call.