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

So (legalizing marijuana) means a lot more to me than just being able to smoke a joint without being arrested.

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

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'

There's a big shift in our whole way of living, and it started maybe 10 years ago when [smartphones] came into existence. Up until then, we were at the mercy of the press, and so-called experts that would tell us what to think and how to think.

I was more of a weightlifter.

People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke.' No such thing. Like if you tripped or stumbled and people go, 'Oh, that's Charlie Chaplin.' You know what I mean? You can't own a joke. You can be the guy that tells it the best, but you can't own a joke. Nowhere can you own a laugh.