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.

One night all the James Brown band was playing on stage and I look in the back and I could see Mick Jagger and Keith Richards trying to get in the club and they couldn't get in cause it was to crowded.

I was more of a weightlifter.

You got a bag of pot, there's someone who wants to buy it from you. So in a weird way, marijuana has [become] and is becoming the new currency of the world.

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

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

Once you're a felon you're a target.