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.

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.

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

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.

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

Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'