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

To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.

There's a hierarchy in prison, and I was right at the top.

If more people were stoned there would be less violence in the world.

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

Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.

Now the [smartphone] has freed everybody, and so everybody gets better. No matter what you say, people will check you out on their phone.