We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.

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

I want my ashes either with some really good primo or as some fertilizer for plants.

I love to meet my fans, and after every show I usually hang out for a few hours, talking to my fans, signing autographs, and selling T-shirts.

When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. The spirits whisper the ideas in your brain and prod you along. They're the ones that are really happy.

To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.

Something good always happens at 4:20 for me.

The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.

Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.

Boredom is a disease, too.

Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.

4:15. Not 4 not 4:30 but 4:15. She thought to intimidate me with the use of quarter hours.

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver.

You might be a redneck if you think a chain saw is a musical instrument.

The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.

About 90 percent of the pieces in my home are vintage, and I'm a ruthless editor. I only live with things that I love. There is not one thing in my home that doesn't have meaning to me.

When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself.

Winning requires reaching inside of yourself for that extra gear to accelerate challenges.