There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.

There was this little shaggy dog on it, and Frank Weatherwax was working the dog. One day we were all sitting around, and Frank said, listen, my brother Rudd just got the rights back from MGM for Lassie, and said have your agent check into it. I did, and I went for a screen test.

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.

I wanted to go to regular high school- it looked like a lot of fun.

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life?