Marijuana at the time we were making movies [with Cheech Marine] was not that readily available and I do prefer to be coherent when I am working.

The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.

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

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.

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

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.

We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.