We should not be putting kids in cages and hoping that is going to fix their psychological problems of any type.

Incarceration is as useful for addiction as it is for diabetes - i.e., not useful and potentially harmful, particularly for kids.

A lot of the stuff that we say about drugs is just wrong.

The thing about our drug laws is that they're not based on science.

We have a system that was devised by racists to create racist ends.

I think our drug laws need to be made scientifically, as best as possible, recognizing that values will always be part of that.

In order for people to recover, we can't just say 'love is all we need.'

In a criminal justice setting, it's very hard to create a therapeutic environment where people do feel safe, but the real important thing to do is to do your best to do that.

An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric.

To take a stand on IP, India needs to have a stand first.

There are people who think contraception is immoral because the object of copulation is procreation. In a similar way there are people who think the only reason to read a book is to write a book.

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us.

Race is a universal flaw in humanity. So yes, I've been in many situations where I've felt like the outsider because of the color of my skin.

Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it.

Go as far as you can. Go further than you can!

The source is within you. And this whole world is springing up from it.